How to make a ROOT webapp outside $TOMCAT_HOME work in 5.5.12

[Rob Hills <ro...@netpaver.com.au>]

Hi All,

I have a configuration setup that used to work Tomcat on 5.5.9 but I 
can't get it to work in 5.5.12.  Our web apps live outside the 
$TOMCAT_HOME tree - a number of virtual hosts defined in server.xml, 
each with an appBase pointing to the web app's directory and each with a 
ROOT.xml context file in $TOMCAT_HOME/Catalina/$VIRTUAL_HOSTNAME/. 
After upgrading my development environment to 5.5.12 I found that these 
apps now won't work.  Tomcat wants them to live in a ROOT folder under 
the appBase directory.  I tried specifying a docBase in the ROOT.xml 
file but no joy, either with a relative path (ie relative to the 
appBase) or an absolute path.  The error log still contains lines like this:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base 
d:\wwwRoot\www.netpaver.com.au\www\ROOT does not exist or is not a 
readable directory

Now, I know I can move everything down into a ROOT directory under my 
appBase, or put it all into a WAR file (which is what we do in 
production).  However, these are all applications under active 
development, tied to repository folder structures, development 
processes, documentation, build scripts etc etc. so it would not be a 
trivial change.

So my question is:  Is there any way to make this work like it did in 
5.5.9 without a major restructure of our development environment? 
Should Tomcat be ignoring the "docBase" attribute of the Context element 
or is that a bug?

Cheers,

Rob Hills
West Perth


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