Tomcat 5.5.17 and Ant

["Daniel Herbison" <herbison (at) nortel.com>]

I'm trying to install a webapp in a different base directory other than
webapps under the tomcat base, using ant.  

 

This worked perfectly under 4.1.31 but under 5.5.17 it wants to dump the
application in webapps.  What have I forgotten or over looked?

 

The ant build file looks like this:

 

<taskdef name="deploy"
classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask"/>

 

<target name="deploy" description="Deploy application to servlet
container">

<deploy url="${manager.url}"

            username="${manager.username}"

            password="${manager.password}"

            path="${app.path}"

            war="file://${build.home}"/>

</target>