Using the manager, I deployed the application (removed it from webapps dir first and restarted tomcat).
/montage was then available (no /montage_prod) Stopping & restarting tomcat made /montage disappear as expected. It's seems like the auto deploy system doesn't check if you had a context descriptor xml file for your .war file. Robert L Sowders wrote: >Does this still happen if you don't copy it to the webapps directory and >instead deploy it using the manager? > >rls > > > > > >Ben Walding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >09/07/2002 01:28 AM >Please respond to "Tomcat Users List" > > > To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: > Subject: Autodeploy oddity (bug?) in 4.1.10 (TomCat deploys same >webapp to 2 >contexts instead of 1) > >I've found a minor oddity when using auto deployment in 4.1.10. > > > >Take a simple web application (called montage), create a >montage_prod.war and montage_prod.xml for it and copy them to the >webapps directory. However before doing that, change the path i.e. > ><Context path="/montage" docBase="montage_prod.war" debug="0"> > >Restart tomcat. > >TomCat proceeds to merrily deploy montage_prod.war to /montage and this >context works. > >However it also deploys montage_prod.war to /montage_prod and this >context doesn't work properly (I dispute whether it should even exist at >all). It appears to be missing the environment settings from >montage_prod.xml. > >Admittedly this won't affect many people and I only noticed because I've >started using the built-in TomCat manager. > > >Is this intentional behaviour? > >(I realise I can rename montage_prod.war to montage.war and similarly >for the xml, but that isn't really the point). >(I've looked at >http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/host.html#Automatic%20Application%20Deployment, > >but it skates around this question) > >Cheers, > > >Ben > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
