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Hi,

I am using Tomcat 6.0. I need to deploy a war file that resides in an external directory.
But I need to deploy it into a custom path in the webapp folder in tomcat.

I am using a context file that is located in:
\Tomcat_6.0\conf\Catalina\localhost\aaa#bbb.xml

with the contents of the xml file:

<Context path="/aaa/bbb" docBase="D:\deployments\custom.war" reloadable="true">
<Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" prefix="llservlet." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/>
</Context>


The end result i am looking for is that custom.war is expanded into: tomcat\webapp\aaa\bbb

but i end up with: tomcat\webapp\aaa#bbb

The tomcat docs specify that the '#' is used in the xml file name to create a context path.
Not sure what i am doing wrong, any help much appreciated,
thank you
 
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Where did you read about the '#' should do anything special??

The name of the xml file will be the context path.

and in the documentation - http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/manager-howto.html - is the following written:

Deploy using a Context configuration ".xml" file

If the Host deployXML flag is set to true you can deploy a web application using a Context configuration ".xml" file and an optional ".war" file or web application directory. The context path is not used when deploying a web application using a context ".xml" configuration file.

 
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thanks,

your right but i am not using the 'path' to specify the path.


In individual files (with a ".xml" extension) in the $CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ directory. The name of the file (less the .xml extension) will be used as the context path. Multi-level context paths may be defined using #, e.g. foo#bar.xml for a context path of /foo/bar. The default web application may be defined by using a file called ROOT.xml.

From URL: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html

so if i understand correctly the name of the xml file is used as the context path: my xml file is called 'aaa#bbb.xml' and the war file ends up being expanded into: tomcat_home\webapps\aaa#bbb\...

so the above statement from tomcat docs says using the '#' will provide multi-level context paths ....

thanks for the response; note this did work in tomcat 5.5 but i just upgraded our servers to tomcat 6 and it is not working ...
 
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I've now tried the configuration, and Yes there will be created a folder in webapps with the name aaa#bbb - but the context the web application is called with is /aaa/bbb

It is working for me with the configuration you have posted
 
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