Not tried this myself, but it sounds like a *nix system (/etc)? Have you tried making ROOT a symlink to your app?
On 11/8/05, Francis Galiegue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We have a problem here. Tomcat 5.0.x (x being 27 or 30), packages from > jpackage, BEA 1.4.2 JVM used. > > Prior to today, the relevant parts (I think so, at least, not being at > all an expert with Tomcat) of the /etc/tomcat5/server.xml were as > such: > > <Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" > autoDeploy="false" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false"> > [...] > <Context docBase="one2team" path="" id="o2t"> > <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" > prefix="access-kitu-" > suffix=".log" pattern="common"/> > <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" > prefix="kitu-" suffix=".log" > verbosity="2" timestamp="true"/> > </Context> > </Host> > > The problem with this setup is that the application was loaded > *twice*. Once at the / of the webserver (which is good, that's what we > want - the webserver is Apache BTW but I think that's irrelevant), but > then another one under /one2team, which is not desired. > > So, after much tinkering around with the configuration files, we came > up with this solution: > > <Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="external-webapps" autoDeploy="false" > deployXML="false" deployOnStartup="true" unpackWARs="true" > xmlValidation="false" > xmlNamespaceAware="false"> > [...] > <Context docBase="/var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/one2team" path="" id="o2t"> > <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" > prefix="access-kitu-" > suffix=".log" pattern="common"/> > <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" > prefix="kitu-" suffix=".log" > verbosity="2" timestamp="true"/> > </Context> > </Host> > > This does what we want. As expected we now see a > Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml created, the application is only loaded > once, so all is fine. > > But then this is flawed: > * The external-webapps directory does not exist, and tomcat doesn't > seem to complain. However, future versions may. What's more, if this > directory is created and a webapp exists in there we get to the same > problem... > * I'm no expert at all with Tomcat but this just looks like there's a > far more simple, elegant way... > > Google has brought up no results at all, but then I may have entered > the wrong keywords :( > Can anyone enlighten me? > > -- > Francis Galiegue, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > One2team - 12bis rue de la Pierre Levée, 75011 Paris - 0143381980 > "When it comes to performance, weight is everything" - Tiff Needell > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
