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Subject: RE: Default context for web app
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:09:18 -0500
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Thread-Topic: Default context for web app
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From: "Shapira, Yoav" <Yoav.Shapira@mpi.com>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>


Howdy,
It's deployed twice if you also have autoDeploy enabled.  ROOT has
NOTHNING special.  Maybe for the next release we should change the nam=
e
ROOT to something else just so people stop thinking there's something
special about it ;)

Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adam Hardy [mailto:ahardy.struts@cyberspaceroad.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 9:07 AM
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: Re: Default context for web app
>
>Yoav,
>from my brief experiment, if you don't place it in ROOT, then like th=
e
>Kent said it gets deployed twice.
>
>e.g. I put my app in APPBASE/gargantus/ and set the context xml:
>
>path=3D''
>docBase=3D'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 i=
t
>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 onl=
y
>> context with path "" (the empty string).  It can be called whatever=

>> you want, i.e. the docBase can be whatever you want.  ROOT is simpl=
y
>> 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, Decembe=
r
>>> 10, 2003 6:48 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Default contex=
t
>>> 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 wit=
h
>>> docbase ROOT apart from the one with path=3D''.
>>>
>>> Note I'm talking about 5.0.12 but I think it's pretty much the sam=
e
>>> for
>>
>> 4.x
>
>
>--
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>Linux 2.4.20 Debian
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