Is it possible to deploy a war file which gives a different context name?

[Aaron Chai <ac...@hotmail.com>]

Is it possible for Tomcat to deploy war files where the context name is not 
the same as the original war file name, e.g. deploying webapp.war and the 
context name is /mainApp instead of /webapp. How would this be achieved if 
it is possible?

Thanks.

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Re: Is it possible to deploy a war file which gives a different context name?

[Markus Schönhaber <ma...@schoenhaber.de>]

Aaron Chai wrote:
> Is it possible for Tomcat to deploy war files where the context name is not
> the same as the original war file name, e.g. deploying webapp.war and the
> context name is /mainApp instead of /webapp. How would this be achieved if
> it is possible?

I don't think this is possible - at least not with Tomcat >= 5. As
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html
states, the only case where the Context's path may be set via a configuration 
option is when statically defining a Context in server.xml - which is 
discouraged and doesn't go along well with deploying a war file.

Regards
  mks

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RE: Is it possible to deploy a war file which gives a different contextname?

["Caldarale, Charles R" <Ch...@unisys.com>]

> From: Tim Funk [mailto:funkman@joedog.org] 
> Subject: Re: Is it possible to deploy a war file which gives 
> a different contextname?
> 
> 1) Keep the war file out of the tomcat installation
> 2) Use a context declaration which points to the war file 
> (mainApp.xml)
> 3) Don't unpack wars (<Host ... unpackWARs="false" ...>)
> 
> mainApp.xml
> ===
> <Context docBase='/usr/local/wars/foo.war'/>
> ===

The only thing missing from the above is that the [appName].xml file
containing the <Context> element with the docBase attribute should be
placed in conf/[engine]/[host] (usually conf/Catalina/localhost).  You
definitely don't want to put it in server.xml; doing so requires
restarting Tomcat when any changes are made to the app.

 - Chuck


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Re: Is it possible to deploy a war file which gives a different context name?

[Tim Funk <fu...@joedog.org>]

Yes (I think)
1) Keep the war file out of the tomcat installation
2) Use a context declaration which points to the war file (mainApp.xml)
3) Don't unpack wars (<Host ... unpackWARs="false" ...>)

mainApp.xml
===
<Context docBase='/usr/local/wars/foo.war'/>
===

-Tim

Aaron Chai wrote:
> Is it possible for Tomcat to deploy war files where the context name is 
> not the same as the original war file name, e.g. deploying webapp.war 
> and the context name is /mainApp instead of /webapp. How would this be 
> achieved if it is possible?


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