Mark, thanks for the reply. You appear to have misunderstood. Which part of the doc did you get this > from and I'll see if it can be made clearer.
>From my understanding of the the order of precedence. [quote] *Context* elements may be explicitly defined: - in the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/context.xml file: the Context element information will be loaded by all webapps - in the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/context.xml.defaultfile: the Context element information will be loaded by all webapps of that host - in individual files (with a ".xml" extension) in the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ directory. The name of the file (less the .xml) extension will be used as the context path. Multi-level context paths may be defined using #, e.g. context#path.xml. The default web application may be defined by using a file called ROOT.xml. - if the previous file was not found for this application, in an individual file at /META-INF/context.xml inside the application files - inside a Host<http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/host.html>element in the main conf/server.xml [/quote] I thought this means that if there isn't a context for this webapp in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/context.xml, or in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/context.xml.default, or just in the [hostname] directory, then it would use the context defined in the web application META-INF/context.xml. Is there a different handling for packaged webapps (wars) vs. an exploded directory? Thanks, Eric -- Learn from the past. Live in the present. Plan for the future. 11101000 http://www.townsfolkdesigns.com/blogs/elberry
