Deploying exploded war in Tomcat using Context appBase

Question

I am looking for an option to deploy exploded war in Tomcat using the context file in /var/tomcat/server/conf/Catalina/localost/myapp.xml

where myapp.xml is like

<Context appBase="/opt/dist/myapp/" debug="0" crossContext="true" />

But it is not loading the myapp application.

It works fine when I use docBase pointing to myapp.war

<Context docBase="/opt/dist/myapp.war" debug="0" crossContext="true" />

Does Tomcat support loading exploded war using Context/appBase?

as far as I know there is no appBase attribute in Tomcats Context element: tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/context.html — wero
try out to place the context under {CATALINA}/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/ folder and have another try — user5266804
Not sure why I dindn't try this earlier, but using the webapp path in docBase property, tomcat loads my webapp <Context docBase="/opt/dist/myapp/" debug="0" crossContext="true" /> — user1013528

user1013528 user1013528 · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-10T18:24:16

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It works fine when I use exploded war (webapp) path in the docBase.