Thank you for your answers, the versions is apache-tomcat-6.0.16, sorry. I'll try to make the things as you say.
Thanks!! awarnier wrote: > > Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >>> From: raistlink [mailto:ela...@gmail.com] >>> Subject: How to create a virtual host with war file without beeing >>> created aROOT dir? >>> >>> I've been developing an application with this structure of directories >> >> Care to tell us the version of Tomcat you're using? Or should we just >> guess? >> >> The above is incorrect; set it up like this: >> >> mydir/html/ROOT >> mydir/html/ROOT/WEB-INF >> mydir/html/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes >> mydir/html/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib >> mydir/html/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml >> >>> At server.xml I've included this host: >>> >>> <Host name="myhost.es" appBase="/myhost/html" unpackWARs="true" >>> autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false"> >> >> With the above directory changes, your <Host> settings are o.k. >> >>> <Context path="" reloadable="true" docBase="/myhost/html"/> >> >> The <Context> is completely wrong: >> >> 1) Don't put <Context> elements in server.xml - that's extremely bad >> practice unless you're using an ancient level of Tomcat. >> >> 2) The <Context> element should be in the webapp's META-INF/context.xml >> file; in your case, that will be mydir/html/ROOT/META-INF/context.xml. >> >> 3) The docBase attribute (when used, which is rarely) must *never* be the >> same as appBase. >> >> 4) For your case, the path and docBase attributes are not allowed when >> the <Context> element is in the proper location; remove them. >> >>> And everything works fine. >> >> Not really; there are bugs in certain versions of Tomcat that make it >> appear to work. You're also getting double application deployment and >> have serious security holes with your current setup. >> >>> What I've done es to take the directory mydir/html and create the >>> html.war. >> >> Change the name to ROOT.war. >> >>> Then I changed the host by this one: >>> <Host name="myhost.es" appBase="/myhost" unpackWARs="true" >>> autoDeploy="true" >>> xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false"> >> >> The above is o.k. >> >>> <Context path="" reloadable="true" docBase="/myhost/html"/> >> >> This is bad, for the reasons stated above. Correct it as noted above. >> > > What I don't get in all this, is how it works, what with the application > located in /mydir/html and the Tomcat appBase in /myhost/html. > > What version of Tomcat is that ? It's *really* smart. > ;-) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-create-a-virtual-host-with-war-file-without-beeing-created-a-ROOT-dir--tp23504283p23518575.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
