Re: TOMCAT and wars outside webapps folder

According to the docs on the unpackWAR attribute: "Note that WAR files
located outside of a Host's appBase are never unpacked."

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html#Standard_Implementation


On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 08:58 -0400, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> Friends: (Thanks in advance for your help)
> 
> 
> We are trying to deploy war files outside of the webapps folder.  The
> war file name is xyz.war.  The approach is the xyz.xml in the
> conf/Catalina/localhost folder.  In that file the docBase is set
> to /opt/testing/mywebapps/xyz
> 
> 
> The xyz.war is located or placed in the folder /opt/testing/mywebapps
> folder.
> 
> 
> The deployment happens but the unarchiving of the war file is not.
>  When I go to the work folder, I see the xyz.war file unarchived but I
> dont see the WEB-INF/web.xml file along with a few other missing jsp
> files as well.  Essentially the unarchiving of the .war file is not
> occuring correctly.
> 
> 
> Not sure what attributes tot he <Context> element I am missing or what
> nested elements I am supposed to put.
> 
> 
> ==================
> 
> 
> When I unarchive the xyz.war by myself in the /opt/testing/mywebapps
> folder then the app seems to work.
> 
> 
> So what gives ?
> 
> 
> Kindly help.
> 
> 
> -N
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