Turns out the developer was deleting the app dir along with war and restarting.
John On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 1:19 PM John Larsen <john.lar...@javapipe.com> wrote: > Ah doing ROOT.war is my pet peeve. I find this bad practice. Its nice to > have ROOT especially when the developer insists theres something wrong with > tomcat when really its their webapp. Having ROOT intact, can show that by > removing their webapp and tomcat works. > > As for "/" vs "" - not sure that would solve the problem - i mean > logically it doesnt make sense, but I will give it a try. > > John Larsen > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 1:15 PM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On 23/04/2020 20:10, John Larsen wrote: >> > Ok so my next question is how to handle this better? The goal here is so >> > that one does not have to enter /webappName/ on the end of the domain. >> > We use the context to tell Tomcat which webapp to load instead of ROOT. >> >> Name the file "ROOT.war" >> >> And if you need some sort of identifier on the file: >> "ROOT##alnomost-any-text-you-like.war" >> >> In the meantime, try specifying the path in server.xml as "" rather than >> "/". >> >> Mark >> >> >> > >> > John Larsen >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:47 PM Christopher Schultz < >> > ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: >> > >> > John, >> > >> > On 4/23/20 14:38, John Larsen wrote: >> >>>> New tomcats 9.0.34 seems to fail when uploading new war when theres >> >>>> a context in server.xml pointing to the particular exploded war. >> >>>> Says 'The main resource set specified is not valid.' It's like hot >> >>>> deploy is deleting the old webapp and restarting tomcat? >> >>>> >> >>>> <Context path="/" debug="0" privileged="true" >> >>>> >> >>>> docBase="/home/some/path/tomcat/webapps/webappName"> >> >>>> >> >>>> </Context> >> >>>> >> >>>> To work around this one has to comment out the above context, start >> >>>> tomcat so the war will deploy, uncomment and then restart tomcat >> >>>> again. >> > >> > Is there a compelling reason to have <Context> in your conf/server.xml >> > file at all? It sounds like it's not doing anything for you; indeed it >> > it giving you a headache. >> > >> > -chris >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> >> -- John Larsen __________ <https://javapipe.com/> <https://www.facebook.com/Javapipe/> <https://twitter.com/JavaPipe> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/javapipe-llc>
