By the way it's not a suggestion it's a signature of the addWebApp method.
I'll try to find my working code and send it.
2014/1/22 Valery Shyshkin <vns.shysh...@gmail.com>
> Try:
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> File baseDir = new File(System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir"));
> tomcat.addContext("", baseDir.getAbsolutePath());
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> 2014/1/22 John Cartwright - NOAA Federal <john.c.cartwri...@noaa.gov>
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>> Thanks for the suggestion Valery, but swapping the arguments doesn't work.
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>> --john
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>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Valery Shyshkin <vns.shysh...@gmail.com
>> >wrote:
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>> > May be tomcat.addWebapp(contextName,pathToWarFile) instead of
>> > tomcat.addWebapp(pathToWarFile, contextName) will help yoo.
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>> >
>> > 2014/1/21 John Cartwright - NOAA Federal <john.c.cartwri...@noaa.gov>
>> >
>> > > Hello All,
>> > >
>> > > I'm trying to create a very basic embeded tomcat 7 application to
>> host a
>> > > packed WAR file. My code looks like:
>> > >
>> > > Tomcat tomcat = new Tomcat()
>> > > tomcat.setPort(port)
>> > > tomcat.setBaseDir(".")
>> > > tomcat.addWebapp(pathToWarFile, contextName)
>> > >
>> > > It seems to work, but I'm getting an exception on startup complaining
>> > about
>> > > the missing webapps directory:
>> > >
>> > > SEVERE: Exception fixing docBase for context [/quickstart]
>> > > java.io.IOException: Application base [{1}] for host
>> > > [/private/tmp/./webapps] does not exist or is not a directory.
>> > >
>> > > Can someone please direct me to a better way to do this? Is
>> > > Tomcat#addWebapp not appropriate if hosting a packed WAR file?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks!
>> > >
>> > > --john
>> > >
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