DO NOT REPLY [Bug 6941] New: - Referencing recently war deployed application in the root context results in 404 error

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Referencing recently war deployed application in the root context results in 404 error

           Summary: Referencing recently war deployed application in the
                    root context results in 404 error
           Product: Tomcat 4
           Version: 4.0.3 Final
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Other
         Component: Catalina
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: RealOkun@usa.net


Steps to reproduce the problem:

1. Shutdown Tomcat server: $CATALINA_HOME\bin\shutdown.bat
2. Reference the application to be deployed in the Tomcat Root Context element 
of the server.xml:
<Context path="" docBase="myapp" debug="0"/>
3. Deploy the application by placing myapp.xml into $CATALINA_HOME\webapps 
directory.
4. Start Tomcat server: $CATALINA_HOME\bin\startup.bat  
5. Request the default application via http://host:port/
6. The response comes as:

Apache Tomcat/4.0.3 - HTTP Status 404 - /index.html
type Status report
message /index.html
description The requested resource (/index.html) is not available.

7. Restart Tomcat server, perform step 5 again. Now the requested resourse is 
being served properly.

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