On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 06:15:25PM +0200, Istvan Devai wrote: > My problem is, that I'd like to configure a valve for only one deployed > application (deployed as a .war file) > > Here are the ways I've already tried: > > - Putting the <Context> element into server.xml. This works, however, > after doing this, the manager application won't let me redeploy the > application (gives an error message describing this).
Usually not the best way. > - Putting the valve declaration into conf/context.xml. This also works, > however, this way the valve configured for all deployed applications, > which is not possible in my case (the valve is doing authentication > stuff, which I do not want to take effect for other apps, eg the manager > app) > - Putting the valve declaration into conf/Catalina/localhost/myapp.xml. > This also works fine, however this file is always deleted after > redeployment (as far as I know, this was introduced to tomcat 7, as > autoDeploy=false does not disable the deletion of context files). It sounds as though you are placing the app. into the appBase directory. Put it somewhere else and declare docBase=path-to-your-app and you should not have this problem anymore. I use this pattern extensively. > The official solution to this, - according to the manual - is to put the > context.xml file into the .war file itself. However, the problem with > this, is that the context contains database connections, mail sessions, > etc. that are different for every environment where the .war file is > deployed. That's why I'd like to stick with an external way of > configuration. Exactly why I have always been puzzled as to why one would ever want to place a context descriptor (which is most likely external information unique to a single instance) inside a webapp. > Questions: > - Any idea how to have an external, application specific (that is, > non-shared) context file that is not deleted on redeployment in the manager? See above. > - Or maybe deploy the app in a different way that retains the > app-specific context file? None that I could ever discover. When an app. is placed in appBase, Tomcat feels free to extract its own context descriptor and destroy same as needed. It can't tell our hand-built ones from its own extracts. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient.
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