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Accessing Web Application from outside webapps

Ashik Uzzaman
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How can I keep a web application in an arbitrary directory in my HDD,say D:\coding\mysite and access that from Tomcat? I don't want to keep my codes during development in webapps dir of tomcat. I guess this should be stated somewhere in server.xml, if its feasible.
Any light? :roll:

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Mike Curwen
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read up on 'docBase' and 'path' in this document:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/context.html
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Thank you Mike. This is what I was looking for.
 
 
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