Hassan,
I know you are 100% correct...
But using the "$CATALINA_HOME/conf/{engine}/{hostname}/ROOT.xml" approach is only one of 4 documented approaches (and the only approach I was able to get working).
Why don't the other three work? And why can't I name the file "context.xml", as the documentation indicates.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Hassan Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <[email protected]>
Cc: "'Bob Bronson'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: conext.xml
Fritz Schneider wrote:
Welcome, fellow newbie! I struggled with this one also. It turns out that
the <context> element for a root directory MUST be nested inside the <host>
element in server.xml.
No, no, no. That's simply not true. I have multiple installations of 5.5.x systems running and not one has a Context element inside the server.xml.
The dead simplest approach is to put ROOT.xml as
$CATALINA_HOME/conf/{engine}/{hostname}/ROOT.xml
Within that ROOT.xml file you can specify the docbase as ROOTXXXX or WhAtTheHeyEver or any appropriate arbitrary path...
The name of the file is a Tomcat convention; the "docbase" *path* you specify is entirely up to you.
-----Original Message----- From: Bob Bronson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I want the "document base" directory (the <Context>'s "docBase") for my default web application to be something other than ROOT. Please don't ask, "why?", this is a simplification of a different but equivalent problem.
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