You are definitely not alone, Angus. For the record, I'm using Tomcat 5.5.
-rob On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Angus Mezick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I the only one that is REALLY disturbed about that idea of REQUIRING > two identical files to run an app? One in the war file and one in the > conf directory? If the only in the conf directory takes priority, why > the one in the war file needed at all? I am just hoping this isn't in > tomcat 6.0.. The idea of relying on the server to use the correct > version of possibly different files in a production server makes me VERY > nervous. > > --Angus Mezick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Dietrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:22 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: where to place context configuration > > I would very much prefer to use only the one in > mywebapp/META-INF/contex.xml, as this is much less invasive (does not > require changing/adding anything to tomcat's global config > directories). But this doesn't seem to work. > > I can leave it as is (and am becoming resigned to the fact that this > is my only option), but this is sort of a maintenance nightmare since > the two files need to be kept in sync. Plus, it just seems idiotic to > need to declare the context and its resources in two locations. > > Does either of these files need a 'docBase' or 'path' parameter? It > doesn't seem to make a difference either way. > > -rob > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Robert Dietrick wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I just noticed that I had a <Context> definition in both >>> $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/mywebapp.xml and in >>> $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/mywebapp.war/META-INF/context.xml. In both of >>> these context definitions, I define a JNDI database connection pool >>> with the same name and identical parameters. This was working fine, >>> but it is confusing, redundant, and runs contrary to the >>> recommendations in the official documentation. >>> >>> However, if i remove either one of these files, I get the dreaded >>> "Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null'" error. >>> Can anyone offer any advice? >> >> Just leave it as is? >> >> The one in conf will take priority. >> >> Mark >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
