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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:06:58 +0100
From: Adam Hardy <ahardy.struts@cyberspaceroad.com>
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Subject: Re: Default context for web app
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Yoav,
from my brief experiment, if you don't place it in ROOT, then like the
Kent said it gets deployed twice.

e.g. I put my app in APPBASE/gargantus/ and set the context xml:

path=''
docBase='gargantus'

then I can access my app via http://localhost/ and 
http://localhost/gargantus/

I'm not sure about 5.x but in 4.x I remember it definitely deployed it 
twice, as evidenced by the logging.

The way to avoid this is to deploy it in ROOT/

It doesn't affect me too much to worry about it but if I decided I 
wanted to have a different app at /gargantus/ then I suspect tomcat 
would cause problems.


Adam

On 12/10/2003 02:43 PM Shapira, Yoav wrote:
> Howdy, You don't have to name it ROOT.  Just make sure it's the only
> context with path "" (the empty string).  It can be called whatever
> you want, i.e. the docBase can be whatever you want.  ROOT is simply
> the default tomcat name for the empty-string-path context.
> 
> Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics
> 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: Adam Hardy
>> [mailto:ahardy.struts@cyberspaceroad.com] Sent: Wednesday, December
>> 10, 2003 6:48 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Default context
>> for web app
>> 
>> On 12/10/2003 08:53 AM Kent Boogaart wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I am trying make my web application available via the default
> 
> context. In
> 
>>> other words, when I type http://localhost:8080/ in a browser on
>>> the
> 
> local
> 
>>> machine I want my web app to appear rather than the Tomcat
>>> default
> 
> web
> 
>> app.
>> 
>>> I figured I'd just need to alter my context's path to "" (empty
> 
> string)
> 
>> and
>> 
>>> alter the existing root context to use "/root" for it's path
>>> rather
> 
> than
> 
>> "".
>> 
>>> Whilst this kind of works (my web app is available via 
>>> http://localhost:8080/) it has an unfortunate side effect. My web
>>> app
> 
> is
> 
>>> started up twice - once in the "" context and again in another
> 
> context
> 
>> based
>> 
>>> on my web app's name ("/eSM").
>>> 
>>> How can I use the default context and only the default context
>>> for my
> 
> web
> 
>>> app?
>> 
>> You need to name your deploy directory 'ROOT' in
>> CATALINA_HOME/webapps.
>> 
>> Rename or delete the current ROOT.  Make sure there is no context
>> xml config in conf/server.xml or conf/Catalina/localhost/*.xml with
>> docbase ROOT apart from the one with path=''.
>> 
>> Note I'm talking about 5.0.12 but I think it's pretty much the same
>> for
> 
> 4.x


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