I am attempting to launch a WAR web application from a tomcat service (tomcat 9.0.2, windows server 2008 R2), after invoking a URL in a browser (Firefox) hosted by an Apache HTTP server (Apache 2.4). The documentation ...
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6RHZ_6.0.6/com.ibm.rational.pe.install.doc/topics/t_rpeng_tomcat.html https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/html-manager-howto.html#Deploy_a_Directory_or_WAR_by_URL) states that the tomcat server.xml configuration file should have an entry: <Context path="/" WAR or Directory URL: file:path to war file (which in this case is C:\Program Files (x86)\apache-tomcat-9.0.6\webapps\OracleStatus.war) The Catalina log file entry gives the following error message .... 25-Jun-2018 14:49:51.158 WARNING [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load Catalina.start using conf/server.xml: Attribute name "WAR" associated with an element type "Context" must be followed by the ' = ' character. The tomcat service then fails to start. Please advise as to correct syntax to use in the server.xml configuration file.
