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Brian,

On 4/21/15 1:14 PM, Brian Jones wrote:
> I'm trying to override the default cookie name (JSESSIONID) for one
> of my Tomcat7 instances. I put the following in 
> $catalina_home/conf/context.xml:
> 
> <Context sessionCookieName="MyCookie">

That will change the session cookie name for all applications deployed
on the server, and not just one web application. Is that what you wanted
?

> However, after restarting Tomcat, the setting isn't being applied;
> the cookie always remains as JSESSIONID rather than MyCookie.
> 
> My environment is: tomcat 7.0.39, java 1.7.0_79, kubuntu 14.10.
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on how/where
> $catalina_home/conf/context.xml is loaded? Or any ideas,
> suggestions, etc are appreciated.

I would have expected what you did to work. Do you have a separate
CATALINA_BASE as well as a CATALINA_HOME? If so, the
CATALINA_BASE/conf/context.xml will *completely override* the one in
CATALINA_HOME/conf/context.xml.

It would probably be better to set the configuration in your web
application's META-INF/context.xml file. Give that a try and see if it
gives you the desired effect.

- -chris
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