> From: Peter Rifel [mailto:pri...@mixpo.com]
> Subject: Deploying a relative docBase outside of appBase
> In Tomcat 7 I had a ROOT.xml file in conf/Catalina/<hostname>/ which
> contained
> my Context with a docBase="../../www.war" parameter. This was able to reach
> my
> www.war directory that lived next to my tomcat directory (one directory above
> CATALINA_HOME, two above webapps).
> This doesn't work in Tomcat 8, giving an IAE
Try this instead:
<Context docBase="${catalina.home}/../www.war" />
There might also be some confusion due to the .war extension on the directory
name, but I thought that was fixed a while back.
> If the docBase is not absolute, we append the appBase with the docBase's
> getName()
> which returns just "the last name in the pathname's name sequence" according
> the
> javadocs.
> Should this be getPath() instead? getPath() would return the full relative
> path
> that when combined with the appBase, the canonical path will be the correct
> path
> to the application.
That does look suspicious.
- Chuck
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