Platform Details:
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Tomcat 5.5.28
Operating System: RedHat Enterprise 5
Problem
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Tomcat appears to be mismanaging my web contexts after a restart. It happens
only sometimes and not others.
I have the following context records in my server.xml:
<Host name="mysite.com" appBase="/home/myaccount/public_html/mysite.com"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false"
xmlNamespaceAware="false"
deployOnStartup="true">
<Alias>www.mysite.com</Alias>
<Context path="" reloadable="true"
docBase="/home/myaccount/public_html/mysite.com" crossContext="true">
<context-param>
<param-name>SharedSessiondataContext</param-name>
<param-value>"/cms"</param-value>
</context-param>
</Context>
<Context path="/cms" reloadable="true"
docBase="/home/myaccount/public_html/mysite.com" crossContext="true">
<context-param>
<param-name>SharedSessiondataContext</param-name>
<param-value>"/cms"</param-value>
</context-param>
</Context>
</Host>
This represents my website and a CMS for the website, the cms being in a
subdirectory of the main website's root directory. Before you ask the
configuration was originally
designed to enable the sharing of session object data between the two contexts.
The problem is that sometimes when Tomcat is restarted these contexts are
confused. At other times the restart does not encounter the problem which is
why the cause remains a
mystery to me that I hope someone can help with.
Symptoms
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If I visit the CMS URL
>> http://www.mysite.com/cms/ (web page is /www/mysite.com/cms/index.jsp)
I see the webpage I would expect to see when I visit
>> http://www.mysite.com/ (web page is /www/mysite.com/index.jsp)
If I visit the main URL
>> http://www.mysite.com/ (web page is /www/mysite.com/index.jsp)
I see the main site just as I would expect so it appears sometimes both
contexts are pointing to the same URL.
Has anyone ever experienced this kind of irregular behaviour or know what might
be the cause? As I say this happens from time to time - sometimes and not
others even though
Tomcat starts up with the same configuration.
Thanks in advance.
Dominic.
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