I believe if you put your context XML files in webapps, Tomcat will copy
them to the Catalina directory, at which point it will consider *that*
context file as the authoritative resource, so updates to your context
XML in webapps won't be recognized.
Not entirely sure on this, but I've had some
Hello.
I was using Tomcat 4 and I had my foo.xml file in
$catalina_home/webapps/foo.xml.
This pointed Tomcat to a different directory where the application resided.
Now, in Tomcat 5 I see in the docs that I am supposed to be placing these
files in $catalina_home/conf/Catalina/localhost/foo.xml.
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