context.xml created by Ant not discovered by Tomcat

[Hollerman Geralyn M <gm...@louisiana.edu>]

I am attempting to get some JDBC parameters passed from Ant to a Tomcat 
<context>.xml file. The idea is for an Ant target to create a file called 
context.xml and place it in <catalina_home>/webapps/<my webapp>/META-INF/ - and 
THERE IS NO .war FILE INVOLVED. Upon startup, Tomcat will discover the file in 
that /META-INF directory and copy/move it to <catalina_home>/conf/<my 
engine>/<my host>/, where the JDBC parameters in it will then be used for the 
application.

However, this doesn't work. I have tried both Tomcat 5.0.28 and 5.5.9. I have 
read over the docs, and from them, it appears that what I want to do is correct 
in theory. I read thru the archives of this list, and I found a message 
seemingly asking the same things I am - as in, does context.xml have to be in a 
.war and where should it be placed for a web application; the response to this 
was: "The META-INF/context.xml file is only consulted if inside a .war. 
Otherwise, put the config.xml file in the webapps directory itself (if 
autodeploy is on, which is the default), or whatever directory you designate as 
the Host's appBase(tomcat 4), or the /conf/[engine name]/[host name] directory 
(tomcat 5)."

I have moved context.xml to all the various places described above and 
restarted, all with no success. Same with renaming it - it doesn't appear to 
matter whether the file is called context.xml or <my webapp>.xml.

So, IS there a way to do what I'm trying to do?

Thanks!
-- 
Lynn Hollerman.

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Re: context.xml created by Ant not discovered by Tomcat

[Matt Galvin <ma...@gmail.com>]

> So, IS there a way to do what I'm trying to do?

Yes, there is, I usually put them in:

$CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/myapp.xml

Could you post the contents of your context file? Maybe something
needs to be tweak possibly.

Matt

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