Tomcat will know whch host to use because that's where you deploy it (if you use the deployer) or you can stick the app in the host's appbase folder, and it'll work it out. It did with me anyway. Once it's deployed, have a look in conf\Catalina and you find equivalent context.xml files in there too.
As Apache acknowledge, they just write software that they give away for free, and documentation and support are just extras when they get time. There are a couple of books on Tomcat that go into more detail and explain how things work. (Again, my experience).
Ivan Jouikov wrote:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/deployer-howto.html
And some other google stuff.
What do you mean by {context}/META-INF? What the hell is {context} ?
And still, how would it know which <Host> to use?
-----Original Message-----
From: QM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 7:56 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Can server.xml be reloaded without restart?
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 07:04:12PM -0700, Ivan Jouikov wrote: : Tomcat HOW-TO does a really bad job of explaining of how context.xml would : work... Google didn't yield any useful information as well...
I'm not sure where you're looking -- which howto did you read?
: So, as far as I understand, you create a file called context.xml, and place : the <Context> tag and all its contents into it (instead of keeping them inside : of server.xml)...
Correct.
: Now, where does that context.xml go? Into WEB-INF? Tried it, didn't work.
{context}/META-INF
To answer your other question: this file is associated with the webapp because of its location in the context dir or WAR file. That's how the manager app/Tomcat/etc know what to do with it.
I don't know what's up there now, but this was described on the Tomcat site when I made the switch to using context.xml many moons ago. ;) In fact, for Tomcat5 use of context.xml is encouraged.
-QM
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