deploying without a context?

[Donal Roantree <do...@roantree.com>]

Hi. Sorry this seems so simple but I've been tearing my hair out. I want 
to have my Tomcat application deployed to /AAA/BBB/CCC and browseable at 
www.ABC.com. In the server.xml file I have a <Host> tag but I don't know 
what I should put into the <Context> tag. I've been trying <Context 
path="" docBase="">...</Context> but Tomcat seems to think that since I 
don't have a path or docBase I must mean that everything is in 
/AAA/BBB/CCC/ROOT which is NOT what I want. Surely this is a very common 
setup. 

What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

Re: deploying without a context?

[Pid <p...@pidster.com>]

Donal Roantree wrote:
> Hi. Sorry this seems so simple but I've been tearing my hair out. I want 
> to have my Tomcat application deployed to /AAA/BBB/CCC and browseable at 
> www.ABC.com. In the server.xml file I have a <Host> tag but I don't know 
> what I should put into the <Context> tag. I've been trying <Context 
> path="" docBase="">...</Context> but Tomcat seems to think that since I 
> don't have a path or docBase I must mean that everything is in 
> /AAA/BBB/CCC/ROOT which is NOT what I want. Surely this is a very common 
> setup. 
> 
> What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
> 

You didn't describe your environment, OS, Tomcat version.

ROOT is the special name for the default application for a given host.
You can either deploy a ROOT.war into the hosts appBase, a deployed 
webapp (in the ROOT directory) or you can place a ROOT.xml context file 
(with an appropriate docBase attribute) into the 
'<tomcat>/conf/Catalina/<hostname>/' directory.

Regardless, the behaviour you have discovered is the correct and 
intended one.

The 'path' attribute is only used to indicate the webapp/context path, 
in a <Context...>, when the context is defined in server.xml - which is 
discouraged.


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