Remy,
No, it does not. .xml files in the Host appBase will be ignored.
[Sigh...] I thought I had it. Checking back, I see that only the balancer sample app has it context description file there.
No it isn't... Oh, I see what you mean. It isn't in the appBase, but in the docBase of the balancer webapp. Not sure why it is there. Either way, it isn't doing anything. Probably an oversight. It won't cause any harm either way.
You need to put your Context elements in XML files next to the ones for the manager and admin, and it will work ok.
OK, I tried doing searches of the various *.xml files. Here's what I found:
balancer.xml is in: %CATALINA_HOME%\webapps\balancer %CATALINA_HOME\conf\Catalina\localhost
Like I said above, the former doesn't do anything. The latter is recognized, though.
jsp-examples.xml is in:
can't find it, but it got installed according to stdout.log
Of course it did. There has never been a rule that says you *must* define a <Context> for each webapp. It is entirely optional. If not found, Tomcat will load up the webapp with defaults.
servlets-examples.xml is in:
can't find it, but it got installed according to stdout.log
ditto
admin.xml is in: %CATALINA_HOME%\server\webapps\admin %CATALINA_HOME\conf\Catalina\localhost
manager.xml is in: %CATALINA_HOME%\server\webapps\manager %CATALINA_HOME\conf\Catalina\localhost
Ok, looks like the files within the docBase directory weren't an oversight given that they are in those apps' docBase directories (or maybe it is just a big oversight?). Possibly it is just to provide a web-accessible way to see how the application is configured? Again, however, these files are not used by Tomcat and are completely harmless.
The %CATALINA_HOME\conf\Catalina\localhost location is mentioned in the Tomcat docs
For Tomcat-5.0.xx, not for Tomcat-4.1.xx
, but I thought the server.xml location was mentioned also.
To top it all off, the book TOMCAT, THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE (the only O'Reilly book I've ever been disappointed in) says the *.xml context descriptions (or "fragments", is it calls them) are placed in %CATALINA_HOME%\webapps directory.
They aren't wrong, at least not for Tomcat-4.1.xx. That is exactly where they go for the 4.1.xx releases. They changed things in Tomcat5 to store them in CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/[some host]
[signed] Confused in Austin
Hopefully my response cleared the confusion.
Jake
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