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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 40823] New: - Specifying default context w/empty path outside of server.xml

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           Summary: Specifying default context w/empty path outside of
                    server.xml
           Product: Tomcat 5
           Version: 5.5.20
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Unknown
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: jonwilmoth@yahoo.com


The documentation (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-
doc/config/context.html) encourages users to define their context's outside of 
the server.xml file to enable hot-deployments.  The documentation also 
says "If you specify a context path of an empty string (""), you are defining 
the default web application for this Host, which will process all requests not 
assigned to other Contexts"  Unfortunately, unless the context is defined 
inside the server.xml file, Tomcat doesn't recognize the empty string path 
value.  The workaround suggested on the user mailing list was:
To specify the default app, you must first delete the existing webapps/ROOT 
directory, then install your app in webapps/ROOT (or webapps/ROOT.war) or put 
your <Context> element in conf/[engine]/[host]/ROOT.xml.

This bug is to request the documentation be updated to include the 
instructions for specifying the default context when it's defined physically 
outside of the server.xml file.  

The dev mailing list indicated this is also how Tomcat 6 works.

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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 40823] - Specifying default context w/empty path outside of server.xml

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markt@apache.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




------- Additional Comments From markt@apache.org  2006-10-27 18:20 -------
Fixed in SVN. The updated docs will be included in 5.5.21 onwards. The Tomcat
website will be updated when 5.5.21 is released.

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