excellent thanks Mark - I changed to build 18 and foo#bar.war deploys to context /foo/bar
it doesn't seem to unpack? there may be a good reason for this?? Trevor Paterson PhD new email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bioinformatics The Roslin Institute Edinburgh University Scotland EH25 9PS phone +44 (0)131 5274477 http://www.roslin.ed.ac.uk http://www.comparagrid.org http://www.thearkdb.org Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland with registration number SC005336 Disclaimer:This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the use of the recipient(s) to whom they are addressed. If you have received it in error, please destroy all copies and inform the sender. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 August 2008 16:45 > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Tomcat6 relative contexts > > trevor paterson (RI) wrote: > > Prior to tomcat6 you could happily deploy a 'bar.war' to a context > > like '/foo/bar' simply by including a context.xml file in > the META-INF > > directory of the war > > > > with content <Context path='/foo/bar'/>. > > Actually, that won't quite have done what you think it did. > You normally would have ended up with double deployment. > > > we can no longer get this to work - the only way we can get a > > subcontext recognized is by putting this Context element in the > > server.xml (which then causes autodeployment to both '/bar' > and '/foo/bar'). > > > > We have tried using the TomcatClientDeployer aswell as deploying on > > start up and through the web interface to manager to no avail > > > > are we missing some subtle change from tomcat5 to 6 that is causing > > this? > > As of 6.0.18, you have a couple of options: > 1. Deploy the war outside the appBase and use a foo#bar.xml > context file 2. Name your war foo#bar.war 3. Deploy using a > directory foo#bar > > 2 & 3 only work in 6.0.18 onwards > > See > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html > for details > > Mark > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To > unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
