Sorry - I forgot to include the version I'm using.  It is 7.0.34   Soon to be 
7.0.50  (on Ubuntu 12.0.4 LTS, 64-bit)

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From: Jesse Barnum [mailto:jsb_tom...@360works.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 1:22 PM
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Subject: Re: retain context.xml across war updates

Mark, which version of Tomcat 7 implemented the behavior described in that 
document?

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On Feb 6, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:

> On 06/02/2014 17:55, Steve Lopez wrote:
>> Is there a way to ensure an applications context.xml isn't deleted across 
>> reloads of the war file?    We have server-specific settings in each 
>> context.xml and are looking for a way to deploy the same WAR file across 
>> each Tomcat instance.
>> 
>> My first attempt at this was to put the context.xml into ~ catalina 
>> /conf/Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml.   However, Tomcat deletes the file when 
>> the app is unloaded.
>> 
>> Is there a setting to tell Tomcat *not* to delete the context.xml in 
>> ~catalina/conf/Catalina/[host]/[app]?   If not, what is the 'best practice' 
>> for providing configuration settings to each Tomcat while also enabling a 
>> simple continuous integration and deployment of WAR files for an application 
>> across multiple Tc instances.      Creating custom war files (one for each 
>> server) seems brittle and risky if the wrong war is accidentally deployed on 
>> the wrong server.
>> 
>> Specifically, context.xml contains custom settings for 
>> memcached-session-manager which specifies the primary and fallback memcache 
>> host.  These would be different for each server when using sticky sessions.
> 
> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/automatic-deployment.html
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
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