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Is there a way to remap/replace webapps/ROOT?

> From: David Smith [mailto:dns4 (at) cornell.edu] 
> Subject: Re: Is there a way to remap/replace webapps/ROOT?
> 
> Rename ROOT.xml in conf/Catalina/localhost to newContextName.xml.  
> Restart tomcat.

Not sure that's what he's asking for.

> Rizalino DeVilleres wrote:
> 
> > I see the following documentation about defining the default 
> > Context and where to place them but still talks about the path
> > webapps/ROOT.

The default application must be named ROOT (case sensitive), or must be
defined in server.xml with an empty path string (this latter mechanism
is strongly discouraged).

> > We basically would like that path to be just public_html without
> > changing the path on the web server's docroot. 

Not sure what you mean here.  Do you want the clients to use
http://<mysite>/public_html to get to your primary app, or do you want
to store your default app somewhere in your local file system under the
directory public_html?

For the former, simply name your app public_html, either by placing it
under webapps with that name (subdirectory or .war file), or by creating
a public_html.xml file in conf/[engine]/[host] that has a <Context>
element with its docBase attribute pointing to the location of your app.
([engine] and [host] are usually Catalina and localhost, respectively.)

For the latter, create a ROOT.xml file in conf/[engine]/[host]
containing a <Context> element with its docBase pointing to the
/<someWhereInFileSystem>/public_html directory.

Or am I completely misunderstanding the problem?

 - Chuck


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