"/META-INF/context.xml" is being copied to "$CATALINA_HOME/conf/my_engine/my_app/ROOT.xml"

[Dave Cherkassky]

Dear Tomcat community:

Here's my setup:
- I am running Apache Tomcat/6.0.24.
- I am deploying the my applications 'exploded' -- i.e. NOT as a war file.
- each application is defined by a /META-INF/context.xml in the respective 
appBase directory.
- I have several virtual hosts:
<Service name="my_service">
  <Connector protocol="AJP/1.3" port="8009" />
    <Engine name="my_engine" defaultHost="proj-2-1">
      <!-- Default host -->
      <Host name="proj-2-1"
          appBase="/home/webadmin/proj-2-1.djinnsoft.com" unpackWARs="false">
        ...
      </Host>

      <!-- UAT site -->
      <Host name='hg.djinnsoft.com' unpackWARs='false'
          appBase='/home/webadmin/hg.djinnsoft.com/appBase'
          workDir='/home/webadmin/work/hg.djinnsoft.com'>
        <Alias>hg.djinnsoft.com</Alias>
        ...
      </Host>

      <!-- QA site -->
      <Host name='test-hg.djinnsoft.com' unpackWARs='false'
          appBase='/home/webadmin/test-hg.djinnsoft.com/appBase'
          workDir='/home/webadmin/work/test-hg.djinnsoft.com'>
        <Alias>test-hg.djinnsoft.com</Alias>
        ...
      </Host>
    </Engine>
</Service>


Here'smy question/problem:

I've noticed that the /META-INF/context.xml files are being copied from the 
respective appBase directories to $CATALINA_HOME/conf/my_engine directory.  For 
example:
  # ls /opt/tomcat6/conf/my_engine/hg.djinnsoft.com/ROOT.xml
  /opt/tomcat6/conf/my_engine/hg.djinnsoft.com/ROOT.xml
  # ls /opt/tomcat6/conf/my_engine/test-hg.djinnsoft.com/ROOT.xml
  /opt/tomcat6/conf/my_engine/test-hg.djinnsoft.com/ROOT.xml


This behaviour is unexpected for two reasons:
- I have another system, which is configured identically (for another client), 
except that the Tomcat version is 6.0.18.  The older Tomcat version is not 
copying files like this.
- I can't find anything in the documentation that talks about copying the context.xml files 
for <Host> container (not to be confused with copying context.xml for the 
<Context> container, which might happen on occasion).


Is this a new bug?  Did I do something wrong?  Did the Tomcat behaviour change 
in an undocumented fashion?

Thanks,
--
Dave Cherkassky
  VP of Software Development
  DJiNN Software Inc.
  416.504.1354

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