On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 16:51 -0400, nyronian wrote: > > To put it simply, I would like to use the manager to deploy an app > just like > auto-deployment works but I need to change the context (path) without > changing the name of the war. > > I am trying to implement the following deployment requirment: > > 1. Change the context (path) of the war I am deploying, different from > the > name of the war. Note: I know this is not best practice and against > tomcats model but I cannot change the name of the war, as much as I > would > love to. > > 2. Deploy the war outside of the appBase directory via the tomcat > manager. > Note: this has to be done in order to change the context. The context > cannot be changed if it resides in the appBase directory > > 3. When deploying the war, have it: > a. load the war from disk (or from an URL) > b. un-deploy itself if needed (delete the directory off disk) > c. unPack itself to disk in the location specified (as specified > by > the docBase parm) > d. deploy itself under the given context (path) > > > > Note: I have done a ton of research and can't seem to find this exact > scenario. I can manually do this by simply laying out the war on disk > and > loading the context.xml file and point to the directory, but I can't > seem to > auto-deploy with this scenario with the manager tool. > > Thanks. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/deploy-outside-of-appBase-w-Manager-tf4558016.html#a13007722 > Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can if you use tomcat 5.0.x for the most part (5.0.28 for sure). It works brilliantly.
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