Recently found a symlink which would explain this unexpected behavior. :-\
Daniel Rall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a followup to a message I posted to the user list which > describes some undesirable behavior of Tomcat 4.0.1 (unrelated to use > of mod_webapp). > > My application's build process currently generates the deployment > descriptor for my web app from many files which contain snippets of > the final web.xml. After generation of the deployment descriptor (as > $SRC_DIR/conf/web.xml), it is then copied into the appropriate sub > directory of my webapps tree. At this point, I should be able to > launch Catalina (using a $CATALINA_BASE of $SRC_DIR/site and > $CATALINA_HOME of /usr/share/tomcat4). However, the file > $SRC_DIR/conf/web.xml is read in before > $CATALINA_BASE/webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/web.xml. Since both these files > contain the same content, my web app is initialized multiple times. > > That the conf/web.xml relative to my current working directory is used > at all at seems like undesirable behavior to me. If a conf/web.xml > file is going to be looked for at all, at the very least it could be > looked for relative to $CATALINA_BASE. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>