On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 17:37 +0100, Mark Thomas wrote:

> Tomcat version?

jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9

> Chris Abajian wrote:
> > More clues:
> > 
> > We got it to work if you put
> > 
> > <Context path="" docBase="webapps/<our unpacked war file dir>" 
> > 
> > in the top-level server.xml file.  It does NOT work if you put this
> > context fragment in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost
> > 
> > the documentation on auto-deployment is frustrating in a couple of
> > points.  My working hypothesis is that Catalina finds and parses the XML
> > context fragment correctly, but then, when encountering the war file
> > (or expanded directory) containing WEB-INF/web.xml it generates a new
> > context automatically.  The docs are vague on this, offering a warning
> > that explicit contexts don't play well with autodeployed apps.
> > 
> > Can anyone offer some insights into this?  Is this the intended
> > behavior?
> > 
> > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:13 -0700, Chris Abajian wrote:
> > 
> >>I want http://mylocal.tomcat.machine/ to run my servlet's hello world
> >>(instead of whatever's in ROOT) without having to put the servlet name
> >>in the path, i.e. I want it to be the "front door" for the domain.
> >>
> >>Can't make this work, no amount of futzing with Context path= or
> >>docBase= does it.
> >>
> >>This is a stupid question but I've been Googling and tweaking for a day
> >>now.  Help?
> >>
> 
> 
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