I already tried an empty Context tag and no Context tag, makes no difference. Catalina.out has not error. I tried setting logging level FINE to see if there were anything related to how it scans conf/Catalina/localhost/ but nothing.
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 12:11 AM, Caldarale, Charles R < chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote: > > From: Me Self [mailto:wmso...@gmail.com] > > Subject: context doesnt pick up > > > When I put the context in server.xml it works fine, but if I put the same > > context tag in a xml file under /conf/Catalina/localhost/test.xml then > > tomcat doesn't pick it up. I would rather want to use the latter. > > > The test.xml is > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > <Context docBase="/opt/tomcat/webapps/test"> > > > What Am I missing? > > Reading the doc, which for the docBase attribute states: > "The value of this field must not be set unless the Context element is > defined in server.xml or the docBase is not located under the Host's > appBase." > > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/context.html > > I suspect that if you examined the logs you would find an error message > related to deployment of the test webapp. > > If all you have in the <Context> element is the docBase and your webapp is > located in the <Host>'s appBase directory, you don't need a <Context> > element at all. > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you > received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and > its attachments from all computers. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
