FYI, If I add several Context docBase=WebMail path=/ / blocks each
with a different path , in my server.xml, it seems to work . The problem is
that it's discouraged in tomcat's documentation, and anyway it causes my app
to start several times, while with a simple symlink I had the same webapp
Of course you *could* do something to encourage a double deploy and get
the desired result. Just make a context xml file named after the second
context path and set it's docbase to point to the original webapp's
folder. It'd look something like this:
Assuming you have this in your
From: Claudio Tassini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: symlinks in webapps
it causes my app to start several times, while with
a simple symlink I had the same webapp referenced as
many times as I wished
I don't think that's true - each directory or .war file in the appBase
directory
The second context xml file, named secondInstance.xml (URL would be
http://localhost:8080/secondInstance):
Context docBase=originalWebapp !-- Define second instance resources if
any -- /Context
This don't work. It seems that with tomcat 5.0 you can't point a context's
docBase to something
I don't think that's true - each directory or .war file in the appBase
directory will cause a separate application deployment, which is what I
thought you wanted.
As you may have noted, I am not a Tomcat expert so you are probably right.
But my app logs in catalina.out when it reads its
From: Claudio Tassini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: symlinks in webapps
The goal is to have the same webapp referenced by
two contexts
Rather than use symlinks, try using an additional Context element in
conf/Catalina/[host]/WebMail2.xml:
Context docBase=WebMail /
(Include whatever
