What I wrote was extracted from the same doc, the URL you pasted in your response.
"You may define as many Context elements as you wish. Each such Context MUST have a unique context path, which is defined by the path attribute. In addition, you MUST define a Context with a context path equal to a zero-length string. This Context becomes the default web application for this virtual host, and is used to process all requests that do not match any other Context's context path." -----Original Message----- From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 2:15 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: How set a default context > From: Angelov, Rossen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: How set a default context > > - a Context that has an empty PATH attribute will become the > default web application for the virtual host. This definitely > works on Tomcat 5.5 Definitely not true. Read the doc: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html which states: "Please note that for tomcat 5, unlike tomcat 4.x, it is NOT recommended to place <Context> elements directly in the server.xml file. Instead, put them in the META-INF/context.xml directory of your WAR file or the conf directory as described above." and "The value of this field [path] must not be set except when statically defining a Context in server.xml, as it will be infered [sic] from the filenames used for either the .xml context file or the docBase." > - DefaultContext element in the Host is the other way to define a > default context, but this may work only on Tomcat 5.0 The DefaultContext element only specified the set of attributes common to all contexts; it did not specify what the default application was. DefaultContext was replaced by the conf/context.xml file quite some time ago. - 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 start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "This communication is intended solely for the addressee and is confidential and not for third party unauthorized distribution" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
