Best Practices for Deployment with separate Context XML file (Tomcat 6.0.20)

2010-03-08 Thread James Matthews
Dear all, My question focuses on the best way to deploy a Web Application to a running Tomcat instance when specifying the Context Container's configuration in a separate XML file in $CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ In an ideal world I would like to be able to keep a *permanent*

RE: Best Practices for Deployment with separate Context XML file (Tomcat 6.0.20)

2010-03-08 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: James Matthews [mailto:jxmatth...@gmail.com] Subject: Best Practices for Deployment with separate Context XML file (Tomcat 6.0.20) My question focuses on the best way to deploy a Web Application to a running Tomcat instance when specifying the Context Container's configuration

RE: Best Practices for Deployment with separate Context XML file (Tomcat 6.0.20)

2010-03-08 Thread James Matthews
[mailto:chuck.caldar...@unisys.com] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 4:18 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Best Practices for Deployment with separate Context XML file (Tomcat 6.0.20) From: James Matthews [mailto:jxmatth...@gmail.com] Subject: Best Practices for Deployment with separate Context XML file

RE: Best Practices for Deployment with separate Context XML file (Tomcat 6.0.20)

2010-03-08 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: James Matthews [mailto:jxmatth...@gmail.com] Subject: RE: Best Practices for Deployment with separate Context XML file (Tomcat 6.0.20) Context path=/Application Take out the path attribute - it's not allowed. docBase=/home/farthing/appservers/userapps The above should be /home

RE: Best Practices for Deployment with separate Context XML file (Tomcat 6.0.20)

2010-03-08 Thread James Matthews
, Charles R [mailto:chuck.caldar...@unisys.com] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 5:01 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Best Practices for Deployment with separate Context XML file (Tomcat 6.0.20) From: James Matthews [mailto:jxmatth...@gmail.com] Subject: RE: Best Practices for Deployment

Re: Best Practices for Deployment with separate Context XML file (Tomcat 6.0.20)

2010-03-08 Thread Mark Thomas
On 08/03/2010 22:47, James Matthews wrote: Thank you so much Chuck, that works perfectly (interestingly each 'touch' still only instigates the Undeploy log in catalina.out, but the application does now redeploy seamlessly). Thats a 'feature'. It is fixed in 6.0.24 onwards. Mark

RE: Best Practices for Deployment with separate Context XML file (Tomcat 6.0.20)

2010-03-08 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: James Matthews [mailto:jxmatth...@gmail.com] Subject: RE: Best Practices for Deployment with separate Context XML file (Tomcat 6.0.20) is using a separate Context XML file the best way of providing server-specific configuration to a tomcat web application? I think so, since

Re: Best Practices for Deployment with separate Context XML file (Tomcat 6.0.20)

2010-03-08 Thread James Matthews
Thank you Chuck, you've been most helpful. Regards, James On 8 March 2010 19:41, Caldarale, Charles R chuck.caldar...@unisys.com wrote: From: James Matthews [mailto:jxmatth...@gmail.com] Subject: RE: Best Practices for Deployment with separate Context XML file (Tomcat 6.0.20) is using