Good afternoon,
We are currently looking at upgrading our Tomcat 4.1.24 installation to
5.0.19. I've installed a test environment to see what sort of migration
issues there will be, and so far I've only encountered one.
Under 4.1.24, we have a <Host> entry in server.xml that looks like this:
<Host name="localhost" appBase="C:\localwebapps\conf" unpackWARs="true"
autoDeploy="true"
deployXML="true">
...
</Host>
This allowed us to place context descriptors in C:\localwebapps\conf (XML
files with individual <Context> tags, one file for each Context), and these
contexts would be loaded at startup.
With 5.0.19, I modified the <Host> entry to look like this:
<Host name="localhost" appBase="C:\localwebapps\conf" unpackWARs="true"
autoDeploy="true"
deployXML="true" deployOnStartup="true">
...
</Host>
However, the context descriptors in C:\localwebapps\conf are not loaded at
startup, and I can't seem to figure out how to load them at all. The only
way to load them is to place them in
$CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/
I'm assuming I'm missing something, since I doubt that Tomcat 5 would force
you to use $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ for context
descriptors.
Looking through the Deployment HOWTO, the Context Descriptors heading has
this blurb:
A Context XML descriptor is a fragment of XML data which contains a valid
Context element which would normally be found in the main server
configuration file (conf/server.xml), and allows easy and automated
manipulation of web applications by the various management tools available
in Tomcat. For a given host, the Context descriptors are located in
$CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/foo.xml. Note that while the
name of the file is not tied to the webapp name, Tomcat will create Context
descriptors which match the webapp name whenever it will generate a Context
descriptor.
This seems to indicate that I have to use
$CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/. However, the very next
heading, 'Deploying Tomcat on Startup', has this to say:
The webapps which are present in the host appBase will be deployed if the
host "deployOnStartup" property is true. The deployment process is the
following:
a.. The Context XML declarations will be deployed first
b.. ...
This seems to indicate that I should be able to do what I want to do.
Any ideas?
John
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