AW: Changing the ROOT application in Tomcat 6.0.18 on Linux

[Maik Schumacher]

Thanks for the response.

 Make sure you don't have a ROOT directory or ROOT.war file under the
Host appBase directory, and that you don't have any Context elements in
server.xml.  If your new default webapp isn't deploying  for some reason,
there should be log entries indicating why.

Yes, I did that.


 Are you using a real Tomcat on your Linux machine, or one of the 3rd-party
repackaged versions?  The latter has given people no end of problems due to
abuse of symlinks and things not being where they  appear to be.  If so,
delete it and install a real one from the Tomcat download page.
 You might want to do a clean reinstallation on the Linux box regardless,
just to make sure there's not something messed up in what you've got.

Yes, I am using a very clean installation of Tomcat 6.0.18.


However using a different 'appBase' on Windows does not work either and
breaks what I posted before.
I have studied many, many posts on the Web regarding changing the ROOT on
Tomcat, but without successfully implementing this.
Maybe Tomcat just does not support the following scenario (I changed a
little here):

- Having a changed 'appBase' in the 'server.xml' pointing for example to
'c:/test/www' on a Windows machine
- Deploying a Web application as a WAR file with the name' testweb.war'
putting it in the folder 'c:/test/www'
- Now the goal here is to access the Web application with
  http://localhost:8080
  and not with
  http://localhost:8080/testweb


How can I do this? I do not want to rename the 'testweb.war' to 'root.war'.
I believe this is the only way it works.
I have tried all other possibilities. I tried almost every combination with
the Context Tag in the folder 'tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost'
I tried having a ROOT.xml as well as testweb.xml, with different settings,
but it will not work.

Using a ROOT.xml that points to the 'testweb.war' results into this:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base /srv/www/webapps/ROOT does
not exist or is not a readable directory
at
org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext.setDocBase(FileDirContext.java:14
1)
...


The Tomcat documentation does not provide any examples for how to do this.



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Re: AW: Changing the ROOT application in Tomcat 6.0.18 on Linux

[Mark Thomas]

Maik Schumacher wrote:
 - Having a changed 'appBase' in the 'server.xml' pointing for example to
 'c:/test/www' on a Windows machine
 - Deploying a Web application as a WAR file with the name' testweb.war'
 putting it in the folder 'c:/test/www'
 - Now the goal here is to access the Web application with
   http://localhost:8080
   and not with
   http://localhost:8080/testweb

You can't do exactly that.

Leave the appBase alone (pointing to webapps) and use a ROOT.xml file.

 How can I do this? I do not want to rename the 'testweb.war' to 'root.war'.
For the record it is ROOT.war - case matters, even on Windows.

 the Context Tag in the folder 'tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost'
 I tried having a ROOT.xml as well as testweb.xml, with different settings,
 but it will not work.
It should be called ROOT.xml for the result you want.

 Using a ROOT.xml that points to the 'testweb.war' results into this:
 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base /srv/www/webapps/ROOT does
 not exist or is not a readable directory

Exactly what did you put in your ROOT.xml file when you saw this error?

Mark


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