Re: TOMCAT and wars outside webapps folder

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xHcHGof8ERugFUimHUuiYTtmvZSqxChAm1NHuxMTS5k/edit?usp=sharing

Please read the above link for more detail info... and question

-N


On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Rick Noelle <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is the conf/Catalina/localhost/xyz.xml file that is created by
> Netbeans IDE when I create a simple maven web project and deploy it to
> Tomcat:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <Context antiJARLocking="true"
> docBase="/home/rnoelle/NetBeansProjects/xyz/target/xyz-1.0-SNAPSHOT"
> path="/xyz"/>
>
> The name of the war, as you can guess, is xyz-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war.
>
> The war file is never unpacked.  Even if I add unpackWAR="true" as a
> key/value pair in the context tag and bounce Tomcat, the war file is not
> unpacked.  This corresponds to what Tim pointed out.  Is it possible that
> the artifacts you are looking at that appear to be incomplete are leftover
> from a build?  I would make sure the directory is completely cleaned out,
> other than the war file, and bounce Tomcat and see what happens.  Also, I'd
> verify that the user running as Tomcat has permissions to access the folder.
>
> Rick
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Tim Watts <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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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