trevor paterson (RI) wrote: > excellent thanks Mark - I changed to build 18 and foo#bar.war deploys to > context /foo/bar > > it doesn't seem to unpack? there may be a good reason for this??
It should. There is some work on my todo list in that area. I'll add checking this to that list. Mark > > Trevor Paterson PhD > new email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Bioinformatics > The Roslin Institute > Edinburgh University > Scotland EH25 9PS > phone +44 (0)131 5274477 > http://www.roslin.ed.ac.uk > http://www.comparagrid.org > http://www.thearkdb.org > > Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland > with registration number SC005336 > Disclaimer:This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended > solely for the use of the recipient(s) to whom they are addressed. If > you have received it in error, please destroy all copies and inform the > sender. > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 25 August 2008 16:45 >> To: Tomcat Users List >> Subject: Re: Tomcat6 relative contexts >> >> trevor paterson (RI) wrote: >>> Prior to tomcat6 you could happily deploy a 'bar.war' to a context >>> like '/foo/bar' simply by including a context.xml file in >> the META-INF >>> directory of the war >>> >>> with content <Context path='/foo/bar'/>. >> Actually, that won't quite have done what you think it did. >> You normally would have ended up with double deployment. >> >>> we can no longer get this to work - the only way we can get a >>> subcontext recognized is by putting this Context element in the >>> server.xml (which then causes autodeployment to both '/bar' >> and '/foo/bar'). >>> >>> We have tried using the TomcatClientDeployer aswell as deploying on >>> start up and through the web interface to manager to no avail >>> >>> are we missing some subtle change from tomcat5 to 6 that is causing >>> this? >> As of 6.0.18, you have a couple of options: >> 1. Deploy the war outside the appBase and use a foo#bar.xml >> context file 2. Name your war foo#bar.war 3. Deploy using a >> directory foo#bar >> >> 2 & 3 only work in 6.0.18 onwards >> >> See >> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html >> for details >> >> 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]
