Michael, Adding the context.xml to the war file did the trick. When I redeployed the war my custom manager loaded.
Thanks all for the help! -john -----Original Message----- From: Michael Echerer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 2:09 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: META-INF/context.xml and custom Manager John D'Emic wrote: > Hey all, > Hi, > > > I have a custom Manager class I'm trying to use for a single webapp. It > seems the way to do this is to have a context.xml file in the exploded > webapp's META-INF directory. I have the following: > Well, META-INF/context.xml is the right place, but for a .war file that you deploy. Tomcat will extract this xml and copy it to \conf\Catalina\localhost\<your-context-name>.xml Not sure if it works for deployment of true exploded .wars. So please check that this file actually contains your META-INF/context.xml content and not just a plain empty <context> element because you once deployed your webapp beforehand. To my experience, if META-INF/context.xml changes seem to have no effect, it is usually because the \conf\Catalina\localhost\ deployment descriptor is still unchanged. Unfortunately I'm not sure how Tomcat decides when to update that file and when not (not even sure if something is bogus there), and if it makes a difference whether you have an exploded dir vs. .war file, how timestamps influence it, etc. If that didn't help, try to config the context directly in your server.xml just to be sure. Cheers Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
