Running project outside Tomcat webapp folder

[Mohit Jain]

Hi Ranchers

How can we run a project in Tomcat by putting its project directory somewhere else(like under C:\) other than "tomcatxx/webapp" directory.

Thanks
[ January 25, 2008: Message edited by: Mohit Jain ]

[Ben Souther]

You can create a context node with docBase attribute that points to your app's root directory.This can be done either in tomcat/conf/server.xml (old way) or in a context fragment file under tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost.

If you create a context fragment file, the app will be auto-deployed as soon as you place the context fragment file in the localhost directory.

See:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/deployer-howto.html#A%20word%20on%20Contexts