Autodeploy problems in 5.0.27

["Kaiser, Paul" <pa...@merck.com>]

I'm running into a problem with the auto-deploy mechanism (maybe the wrong
term... the mechanism that deploys contexts based on a external context
configuration XML file in $CATALINA_BASE/conf/<engine-name>/<host-name>).

I started with an out-of-the-box install of 5.0.27 on SuSE 8.2.

I set JAVA_HOME, then run startup.sh.

Everything looks okay.

I then create a directory (call it ~/catbase) and
  - copy $CATALINA_HOME/conf to catbase/conf
  - create empty directories in catbase (logs, work, temp, shared/classes,
shared/lib)

I set CATALINA_BASE=~/catbase and run startup.sh.

I'm expecting the same result as when CATALINA_BASE = CATALINA_HOME.

I discover that none of the contexts in catbase/conf/Catalina/localhost get
deployed. There is no indication in the Catalina log file that anything is
wrong.

Am I wrong to think this should work? Have I left out a necessary config
step?

Thanks in advance.

Paul


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