On 03/11/2010 06:24, Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
>> From: Vikram Vaswani [mailto:vikram.melonf...@gmail.com] 
>> Subject: Deploying Tomcat app with Ant to non-webapps location (Windows)
> 
>> When deployed, the application ends up at C:\program
>> files\Tomcat\lcs (lcs is the application name).
> 
> Not an appropriate spot, so it's good that you want to move it.  Better if it 
> were in C:\Program Files\Tomcat\webapps\lcs.
> 
>> I am able to do this manually, by creating a separate context file in
>> Catalina/localhost/lcs.xml and specifying the C:\lcs path as the
>> Context docbase. However, I would like this to happen automatically.
> 
> What do you want to happen automatically?  Once the application and the 
> lcs.xml file are in place, the next deployment should consist only of copying 
> the new version on top of the old one - the <Context> element in 
> Catalina/[host]/[appName].xml need not change.
> 
>> I read that if I place the context fragment in my applications
>> META-INF/context.xml file, then this should happen automatically.
> 
> Still don't know what you want to happen.  


Me either.  Were I to hazard a guess, I'd suggest changing the appBase
to a different location, but having said that - I think setting
appBase="C:\" is a bad idea.


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