Setting a Different context path to webapp name

[James Hoare <Ja...@net-a-porter.com>]

Hi, was hoping someone would help with the following. I have a webapp called myApp.war but I would like to set this to a different url path than the webapp name. I've seen in the docs that you can specify an xml file under Catalina_Home/Catalina/localhost/newurlname.xml.


I have tried this but I get an error stating that the docBase doesn't exist?


in my xml file I just have a <Context></Context> definition I don't specify a docBase?

Can anyone clarify the correct procedure?

Thanks


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Re: Setting a Different context path to webapp name

[Kees de Kooter <kd...@gmail.com>]

In the context tag you need to add an attribute named docBase pointing
to your warfile.

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Kees de Kooter
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On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:05, James Hoare <Ja...@net-a-porter.com> wrote:
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> Hi, was hoping someone would help with the following. I have a webapp called myApp.war but I would like to set this to a different url path than the webapp name. I've seen in the docs that you can specify an xml file under Catalina_Home/Catalina/localhost/newurlname.xml.
>
>
> I have tried this but I get an error stating that the docBase doesn't exist?
>
>
> in my xml file I just have a <Context></Context> definition I don't specify a docBase?
>
> Can anyone clarify the correct procedure?
>
> Thanks
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RE: Setting a Different context path to webapp name

["Caldarale, Charles R" <Ch...@unisys.com>]

> From: James Hoare [mailto:James.Hoare@net-a-porter.com]
> Subject: Setting a Different context path to webapp name
>
> I have a webapp called myApp.war but I would like to
> set this to a different url path than the webapp name.

The easiest thing to do is just rename the .war file, but if you insist on doing things the hard way:

1) Do not put the .war file in the <Host> appBase directory - keep it somewhere else.

2) Create a file named newurlname.xml in conf/Catalina/[host] containing a <Context> element.

3) Set the docBase attribute of the above <Context> element to point to the *absolute* path to the .war file.

> I've seen in the docs that you can specify an xml file under
> Catalina_Home/Catalina/localhost/newurlname.xml.

What docs were those?  They left out a critical component of the path (at least for a real Tomcat installation).

> in my xml file I just have a <Context></Context> definition

An empty <Context> element is never needed.

 - Chuck


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