: Here is what I found on the Apache site about this: ...i think you are refering to...
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.0-doc/config/context.html ..correct? it definitely seems to be something that was changed in 5.5. Note the added sentence in the 5.5 docs... "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." I've updated the wiki with a small note about this... http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrTomcat -Hoss