2011/10/12 André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com>: > Hi. > > [OT] How do you manage to send the text of your messages in > "quoted-printable" form ? > > > Richard W. Adams wrote: >> >> My Tomcat Version: 6.0.18.0 (running under Jboss) >> >> I'm trying to understand the script we use to deploy to our Tomcat server. >> = >> >> The scripts uses pound signs (#) instead of slashes in the path to the WAR >> = >> >> file being deployed. Let me first be clear: The script works. What I=20 >> DON'T understand is why, or the purpose of the pound signs. I tried=20 >> searching the Web for documentation on the use of the pound signs, but=20 >> came up dry. I'm concerned that we might be using an undocumented feature >> = >> >> that could break in future versions of Tomcat. >> >> Can anyone point me to official documentation about pound signs (#) in=20 >> Tomcat paths/contexts? >> > You are right, this is not particularloy easy to find. > Several mentions to the use of "#" in paths are made in this section of the > on-line documentation. > > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/host.html#Automatic%20Application%20Deployment
More here: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html#Naming Warning: the docs are from 7.0. - Tomcat 6 does not use ## - Tomcat 6.0.18 is rather old. There were some fixes in '#' processing after that. I am not sure how '#' will work in that old version. See also: http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html > > I do not really understand it very well myself, but as a starter to dig > further : > If you use "foo#bar.war" a .war file name, and you drop this .war file in > Tomcat's webapps directory, it will be deployed at the path > (tomcat_dir)/webapps/foo/bar/. > > So it's a "trick" when you actually want to deploy an application that way, > because of course you cannot name your war file "foo/bar.war". Yes, if you want your webapp to be deployed at a subdirectory path, such as "foo/bar/baz", "myapp/help", "myapp/tests" etc., you cannot just name it foo/bar/baz.war. So '/' has to be replaced with something. This replacement is '#'. > And you can also not drop a "bar.war" file in the directory > (tomcat_dir)/webapps/foo/, because it would never get deployed. Moreover, a web application is not obliged to have a WEB-INF directory and web.xml file. So ${catalina.base}/webapps/foo/ would be just a web application "foo" that supposedly contains only static files. > > I know that this is a very limited way to describe this feature, but maybe > someone else here will point you to further info of interest. > Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
