Hi Mark, Thanks for the quick reply. But in doing the way you have mentioned, tomcat does NOT expand the classes etc in the ROOT folder. The application does get loaded and work. I was wondering if there is any way that the war file could be expanded in the ROOT folder?
regards, Gautam. --- Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gautam Gothoskar wrote: > > Options: > - Name your web-app ROOT.war > - Put your web-app outside the appbase and place a > ROOT.xml in the appbase > > Mark > > > Hi! > > I have the following issue: > > I have a war file (myapp.war) which when > deployed in > > tomcat is accessible by using the url > > http://localhost:8080/myapp. Tomcat creates a > folder > > called 'myapp' in the webapps directory. But I > need to > > configure the app in such a way that the the app > is > > accessible without any context path > > (http://localhost:8080). This is possible if I > copy > > the expanded files from myapp folder into the ROOT > > folder. But how do I tell tomcat to extract the > files > > into the ROOT folder instead of creating a 'myapp' > > folder for deployment? > > I tried using myapp.xml file in the webapps > folder > > and adding the following content to it: > > <Context path="" docBase="myapp.war" debug="0"> > > </Context> > > What this does is it creates the myapp folder > but > > the application is accessible using both urls: > > http://localhost:8080/myapp as well as > > http://localhost:8080/. I also see that 2 servlet > > instances are loaded in memory. > > > > Any help will be appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Gautam. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
