Hi P, As i mentioned in my initial thread that i did not want to rename my war to ROOT.war so i haven't tried that route but i think i figured out whats going on and posted my findings already.
Thank you guys for your time and please suggest if im wrong with my solution i posted in my previous email. Thanks G ________________________________ From: Pid <p...@pidster.com> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 1:46 AM Subject: Re: Cannot make war file as default app On 12/08/2011 09:32, exquisite wrote: > Hi Mark, > > I tried that way as well but i get the same issue. Tomcat does not even > deploy my war. All it says on console is ' Server startup in xxx ms" and > stays there forever. > > Im getting confused and wondering if there is any mistake in the Tomcat > documentation. > > Please suggest. Does your app deploy, if you rename it ROOT.war and put it in the appBase, without the Context definition in server.xml? p > thanks > G > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> > To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> > Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 1:19 AM > Subject: Re: Cannot make war file as default app > > On 12/08/2011 09:04, exquisite wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I followed the below steps from Tomcat Wiki for making my war file as the >> default webapp, but tomcat is not deploying my war: >> >> How do I make my web application be the Tomcat default application? >> >> Method 2.2 >> If you really know what you are doing.. > > Sigh. > >> - leave your war file in CATALINA_BASE/webapps, under its original name >> - turn off autoDeploy and deployOnStartup in your Host element in the >> server.xml file. >> - explicitly define all application Contexts in >> server.xml, specifying both path and docBase. You must do this, because >> you have disabled all the Tomcat auto-deploy mechanisms, and Tomcat will not >> deploy your applications anymore unless it finds their Context in >> the server.xml. >> >> I did exactly like they said in WIKI (autoDeploy=false, >> deployOnStartup=false) , but after doing all this, Tomcat does not even >> deploy my war file. here is my host configuration in server.xml after my >> changes: >> >> <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" >> unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="false" deployOnStartup="false" >> xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false"> >> >> <Context path="" docBase="myapp"/> > > You claim to be deploying a WAR file so I'd expect to see > docBase="myapp.war" > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
