thanks craig for clarifying that. I'll stick with using symlinks, since a fix would be a big task.
peter lin "Craig R. McClanahan" wrote: > > What you describe isn't a bug -- it's a direct consequence of the way > auto-mount works in the "appBase" directory of a Host (i.e. the "webapps" > directory). > > Normally, Tomcat examines all the contents of the "webapps" directory, and > (if it's a WAR or a directory) tries to automatically mount a webapp with > the corresponding name as the context path -- thus the "examples" > directory is automatically mounted at context path "/examples", the > "tomcat-docs" directory is automatically mounted at "/tomcat-docs", and so > on. > > The root directory is a case where we can't do this -- conforming to this > pattern would require us to have a zero-length pathname, which most OSs > are not too happy with. Therefore, there is a special case that the > directory name ROOT will be mounted as the root webapp. > > If you don't want two instances of you webapp, it's really very simple: > > * Don't change the docBase for the ROOT partition > > * Use an absolute docBase that points to a directory not under webapps. > > By the way, you can cause the same sort of problem with any other context > that is explicitly configured in server.xml -- for example, add a new > <Context> entry just before the one for "/examples" like this, and see > what happens:: > > <Context path="/foo" docBase="examples"/> > > Craig > > On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, peter lin wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 08:48:38 -0400 > > From: peter lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Tomcat Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Tomcat Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: ServletContextListener bug #11043 > > > > > > I've posted this question last week and talked to Remmy, but Remmy is > > busy with moving. I spent some time this weekend trying to track down > > the bug, but couldn't figure it out. I'm hoping if I describe the bug > > more clearly, someone can point me in the right direction. > > > > The bug is the following: > > > > If I have server.xml set with all the defaults and I have a > > ServletContextListener defined in web.xml, Tomcat correctly creates an > > instance of my listener and starts my test application. If I add a > > webapp, it also correctly creates an instance of my listener and starts > > the test application. > > > > > > If on the otherhand I change server.xml to point to a different > > directory for the default root path from "ROOT" to say "myapp", Tomcat > > ends up creating two separate instances of the listener. Both listeners > > get contextInitialized() event and create one instance of my test > > application per listener. The correct behavior should be the same as > > leaving the root directory to the default "ROOT". > > > > If I use 4.1.8 and load up the manager, I see webapp "/" and "/myapp". > > This explains why two separate instances of my listener are created. I > > only want 1 instance of my test application to startup with tomcat, > > since it loads global configuration values into memory. > > > > I looked in catalina.core.StandardContext, but I don't see which class > > is responsible for creating the listener listed in web.xml. Is the > > behavior of creating two instances of my listener according to > > specification? Is there something special about changing the default > > root path from "ROOT" to some other "myapp" path? > > > > > > peter lin > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
