Deploying in Tomcat other than in webapps folder

[Senthil Kumar]

Hi,
Can any one tell me how can i have my application(be it a .war file or a simple directory structure) reside in other than the webapps folder and still able to run it.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Create a file called TOMCAT_HOME\conf\Catalina\localhost\mywebapp.xml with contents like this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
 
<Context displayName="MyWebApp" docBase="C:/path/to/my/web/app" path="/mywebapp" reloadable="true" />
 

Then your web app directory will be C:/path/to/my/web/app, and accessible under /mywebapp.
[ September 13, 2006: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]