I also tried renaming
/usr/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/t.xml
to 
/usr/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/a.xml
and now no exception is thrown, and I see
via tomcat manager that context /a is 
created, but whenever I try to access 
any pages under /t I get error 404.

--- On Wed, 8/19/09, Roger Powers <prog...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Roger Powers <prog...@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Problem with respecting docBase in context file in TC 6.0.20?
> To: users@tomcat.apache.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 3:19 PM
> Problem:
> 
> 1) /usr/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/t.xml has:
> <Context path="/t" docBase="webapps/a" />
> 
> 2) /usr/tomcat/webapps/a exists.
> 
> 3) /usr/tomcat/webapps/t does not exist.
> 
> 4) When tomcat starts,
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext:resourcesStart()
> throws 
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base 
> /usr/tomcat/webapps/t does not exist or is not a readable
> directory
> 
> Since I never gave it a docBase of /usr/tomcat/webapps/t, I
> presume
> the problem is that it expects one due to the presense of
> /usr/tomcat/conf/catalina/localhost/t.xml ?
> 
> How can I get it to not make such a presumption, and look
> at the docBase 
> in the t.xml file?
> 
> 
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