Eric Berry wrote: > Mark, thanks for the reply. > > You appear to have misunderstood. Which part of the doc did you get this >> from and I'll see if it can be made clearer. > > >>From my understanding of the the order of precedence. > > [quote] > > *Context* elements may be explicitly defined: > > - in the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/context.xml file: the Context element > information will be loaded by all webapps > - in the > $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/context.xml.defaultfile: > the Context element information will be loaded by all webapps of that > host > - in individual files (with a ".xml" extension) in the > $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ directory. The name of the > file (less the .xml) extension will be used as the context path. > Multi-level > context paths may be defined using #, e.g. context#path.xml. The default > web application may be defined by using a file called ROOT.xml. > - if the previous file was not found for this application, in an > individual file at /META-INF/context.xml inside the application files > - inside a > Host<http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/host.html>element > in the main > conf/server.xml > > [/quote]
Your original post referred to the context path. If you read further down in the description of the path element: <quote> The value of this field must not be set except when statically defining a Context in server.xml, as it will be inferred from the filenames used for either the .xml context file or the docBase. </quote> > I thought this means that if there isn't a context for this webapp in > $CATALINA_HOME/conf/context.xml, or in > $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/context.xml.default, or just in > the [hostname] directory, then it would use the context defined in the web > application META-INF/context.xml. That isn't quite how it works. $CATALINA_HOME/conf/context.xml provides global defaults which can be overridden at the host level by: $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/context.xml.defaultfile which in turn can be overridden at the context level by: $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/<contextpath>.xml If a <contextpath>.xml exists, it always takes priority over anything in a WAR or an exploded directory. > Is there a different handling for packaged webapps (wars) vs. an exploded > directory? There is a slight one. For WARs with a context.xml, it will get copied to $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ if a <contextpath>.xml does not exist. context.xml files in an exploded directory do not get copied. This is an inconsistency that is on my list to fix as part of fixing https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42747 Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
