Is there a document on how deployment works now in 5.5.9 (ref context.xml)?

[Digby <li...@digby.net>]

I've just upgraded to 5.5.9 and was surprised by how things seem to work 
when I try to deploy a war file.

Before, I stopped Tomcat, copied my war over, leaving the context.xml 
alone, and restarted. Everything works.

How, I can copy a war over without stopping TC, but then server.xml and 
my context.xml (in conf/host) is overwritten, and my cotext path is 
lost. This wouldn't usually be a problem, but some of my apps need a 
context path of / (path=""), and this is reset to /contextname each time 
I deploy, breaking each site.

I read that from now on you need to set up ROOT.xml to point to your app 
if you want the path to be /, but this seems to be deleted when I deploy 
my app or restart TC.

I guess this was done for sensible reasons, but I can't find any 
documentation on how it works and how I keep my app at the root context.

Anyone got any pointers?

TIA

Digby


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