tomcat 5.5.7 autoDeploy/reload trouble

[jesper]

Hi there.

I have migrated from tomcat 4.1.31 to tomcat 5.5.7
I have a setup with many virtual hosts.
I ame using the option in 5.5 to put context information
in /CATALINA_BASE/conf/[engine]/[host]/context.xml.default

in server.xml each host is defined like this

<host name="name.example.com" autoDeploy="true"... appBase="webapps"/>

and the contexts
<Context docBase="/home/xxxx/public_html" reloadable="true"/>

If the appBase in server.xml is within the docBase of the context tomcat 5.5
says no host matches name name.example.com...

But changing a /home/xxxx/public_html/WEB-INF/web.xml, does not make tomcat
redeploy the Context. the catalin_base/conf/context.xml makes web.xml a
watched resourse.

I'm thinking that the appBase=webapps, is the problem but as mentiod
changing it does not work....

What to do ? Any suggestion appriciated

TIA
Jesper

[viator]

Try this:
1. Create a directory /home/xxxx/public_html/META_INF
2. Create a file named context.xml in the directory with following
line:
<Context reloadable="true" />
************************************************** ************************
Please let me no if this solves your problem.
Viator

[jesper]

viator wrote:

Try this:
1. Create a directory /home/xxxx/public_html/META_INF
2. Create a file named context.xml in the directory with following
line:
<Context reloadable="true" />
************************************************** ************************
Please let me no if this solves your problem.
Viator

Did not help.

<Host name="foo" appBase=/home/foo autoDeploy="true"/>

in CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/foo/context.xml.default

<Context docBase="/home/foo" reloadable="true" />

/home/foo/WEB_INF/web.xml
/home/foo/META-INF/context.xml

Still does not reload context after changes to web.xml

I can only make tomcat reload context in CATALINA_HOME/webapps ....

regards

[viator]

That is exactly what happens for application outside
CATALINA_HOME\webapps directory.
I have been through same problem; so I moved my application inside
CATALINA_HOME\webapps; for now that's fine. If you get a solution
please let me know any ways.

Regards and thanks
Viator

[Roland]

I had the same problem, and I found the solution is to add the ROOT application to the directory specified in the Host element, appBase property. So you can set that property to the directory you want to, but it has to contain the ROOT subdirectory as default web app.