Hi all,
When no contexts for a Host are specified in server.xml, but all are
placed in the META-INF of their respective apps,
how does one specify one of them as the default Context for that Host?
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html doesn't seem
to say what to do:
path: .......If you specify a context path of an empty string
(""), you are defining the /default/ web application for this Host,
which will process all requests not assigned to other Contexts. The
value of this field must not be set except when statically defining
a Context in server.xml, as it will be inferred from the filenames
used for either the .xml context file or the docBase.
Using the simple Tomcat sample
(http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/appdev/sample/sample.war), I
set up a test setting:
Host definition from server.xml:
<Host appBase="webapps" name="strong-brain.com" unpackWARs="true"
autoDeploy="true">
<Alias>www.strong-brain.com</Alias>
<Context path="/manager"
docBase="/opt/tomcat5/server/webapps/manager" privileged="true"
debug="0"/>
<Context path="/admin"
docBase="/opt/tomcat5/server/webapps/admin" privileged="true"
debug="0"/>
<Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
prefix="strong-brain.com." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/>
</Host>
Applications in tomcat5/webapps:
ROOT sample sample.war sample2
[sample2 is just a slightly edited copy of sample]
Out of the box, neither has a context.xml in META-INF.
Connecting to http://strong-brain.com/sample or
http://strong-brain.com/sample2 gives the expected result, and connecting
to http://strong-brain.com/ yields the Tomcat manager (Is that
because it is the first context listed in Host??)
Despite the prohibition on using 'path=...' in Contexts in META-INF, I
tried putting this in webapps/sample/META-INF/context.xml:
<Context path="" debug="10" reloadable="true" cookies="true"/>
It didn't have any effect. In particular, connecting to
http://strong-brain.com/ still yielded the manager.
So how can I make sample or sample2 the default webapp for this Host,
running when the connection to http://strong-brain.com/ is made???
Thanks,
Ken Bowen
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