> That isn't quite how it works. > $CATALINA_HOME/conf/context.xml > provides global defaults which can be overridden at the host level by: > $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/context.xml.defaultfile > which in turn can be overridden at the context level by: > $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/<contextpath>.xml > > If a <contextpath>.xml exists, it always takes priority over anything in a > WAR or an exploded directory. > > > Is there a different handling for packaged webapps (wars) vs. an exploded > > directory? > There is a slight one. For WARs with a context.xml, it will get copied to > $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ if a <contextpath>.xml does > not exist. > context.xml files in an exploded directory do not get copied. This is an > inconsistency that is on my list to fix as part of fixing > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42747 > > Mark >
Ok cool. Thank you very much for clearing that up for me. The first time I deployed the war, there wouldn't have been a context in any of the 3 locations mentioned above. As you said, it would have copied the context.xml file from the war into the 3rd location as <contextpath>.xml correct? I looked at in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/, and sure enough there is a mywar-snapshot.xml. When I look at the contents of that file it it contains this: [quote] <Context path="/mywar" /> [/quote] So in this case the file-name itself is actually used rather than the path specified in this file? I know you quoted this from the documentation, I just wanted to clarify that this is what it meant. My understanding aside, this seems a bit counter-intuitive to me. Why recommend the use of the context.xml if it really isn't used? I'll be honest I have very little experience deploying using a war, I usually deploy as an exploded directory, but I always had the impression the name of file was used as a default case when a more specific context.xml wasn't present. In either case, thank you very much for the help. Cheers, Eric -- Learn from the past. Live in the present. Plan for the future. 11101000 http://www.townsfolkdesigns.com/blogs/elberry
