Tomcat-6: Per-virtual-host environment stuff?

[Andrei Hager]

I'm trying to make a simple string (path to an important file) available to all webapps on a given virtual-host via server.xml. Here's an example of what does NOT work, but comes close:

<Host name="foo.example.com" 
appBase="/var/www/accounts/bob/foo.example.com/"
unpackWARs="true"
autoDeploy="true" 
xmlValidation="false" 
xmlNamespaceAware="false">

<Context path="">
<Environment name="inipath" 
value="/var/www/accounts/bob/specialinfo.ini"
type="java.lang.String"
override="false"/>
</Context>
</Host>

The problem is that The "default context" only applies to stuff in the ROOT folder, but not any other webapps. What I really want is to be able to set an <Environment> value (or something equivalent) which is visible by all webapps under the <Host>.

Any suggestions?

[Andrei Hager]

Answer: You can do a per-host context by putting XML in:

$CATALINA_HOME/conf/EngineName/HostName/context.xml.default

e.g.

/usr/share/tomcat6/conf/Catalina/www.example.com/context.xml.default

<Context path="">
    ...
</Context>