Re: context.xml being deleted out of conf/Catalina/[HOST]/ directory

2010-09-11 Thread Pid *
On 11 Sep 2010, at 17:24, Wesley Acheson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Jason Britton wrote: >> So even if my context still exists in exploded form in the webapps directory >> and I remove the .war form of the context, it'll remove the associated >> context.xml from the conf/Catalina/

Re: context.xml being deleted out of conf/Catalina/[HOST]/ directory

2010-09-11 Thread Wesley Acheson
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Jason Britton wrote: > So even if my context still exists in exploded form in the webapps directory > and I remove the .war form of the context, it'll remove the associated > context.xml from the conf/Catalina/HOST/ directory? > > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 8:12 AM,

Re: context.xml being deleted out of conf/Catalina/[HOST]/ directory

2010-09-11 Thread Jason Britton
So even if my context still exists in exploded form in the webapps directory and I remove the .war form of the context, it'll remove the associated context.xml from the conf/Catalina/HOST/ directory? On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Wesley Acheson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Jason

Re: context.xml being deleted out of conf/Catalina/[HOST]/ directory

2010-09-11 Thread Wesley Acheson
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Jason Britton wrote: > Could anyone give me an explanation what might cause my webapp's context > configuration to be deleted out of the tomcat/conf/Catalina/[HOST]/ > directory?  I've got a foo.war file in the webapps directory, it gets > exploded upon startup. It

Re: Context.xml being deleted

2010-04-13 Thread hassan.schroeder
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote: >> Well, AFAIK it's either symlinks (which can be scripted in deployment >> processes pretty easily) or put all that stuff in a separate context that >> you never, ever, EVER undeploy :-) Sheesh, yeah. Multitasking #FAIL. Garcon, more c

Re: Context.xml being deleted

2010-04-13 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hassan, On 4/12/2010 9:24 PM, Hassan Schroeder wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Sam Stephens wrote: > >> I have a forum application. When we update it we want to distribute a >> new war file (previously we updated all files individually). I

Re: Context.xml being deleted

2010-04-13 Thread Mark Thomas
On 13/04/2010 02:24, Hassan Schroeder wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Sam Stephens wrote: > >> I have a forum application. When we update it we want to distribute a >> new war file (previously we updated all files individually). If we >> give out a new war file to our customers the imag

Re: Context.xml being deleted

2010-04-12 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Sam Stephens wrote: > I have a forum application. When we update it we want to distribute a > new war file (previously we updated all files individually). If we > give out a new war file to our customers the images directory, the > attachments directory and other

Re: Context.xml being deleted

2010-04-12 Thread Sam Stephens
Thanks for the earlier replies. So after some more research it seems there is no way to tell tomcat that I don't want particular directories to be deleted on an application redeploy? Is this correct ? I have a forum application. When we update it we want to distribute a new war file (previously w

Re: Context.xml being deleted

2010-04-12 Thread Pid *
I've tried that, it doesn't work. Updating a WAR file will trigger an undeploy and consequent removal of the context descriptor in a running Tomcat if the Host autoDeploy attribute is true. If autoDeploy is false, redeploy without updating the context.xml can occur using the manager. p On 12 A

Re: Context.xml being deleted

2010-04-12 Thread Pid *
If you're uploading directly to the webapps directory, try uploading the file renamed to "yourapp.warTMP" and renaming it in place when the upload is complete. Please let us know if this works/does not work. p On 12 April 2010 09:18, Pid * wrote: > Which version of Tomcat are you using? > > >

Re: Context.xml being deleted

2010-04-12 Thread Pid *
Which version of Tomcat are you using? p On 12 April 2010 01:35, Sam Stephens wrote: > Hi all. > > The tomcat documentation says the following: > If the web application is packaged as a WAR then /META-INF/context.xml > will be copied to $CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ and > rename