tomcat context defined in server.xml is not loading

Question

I have a web application deployed on path

/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/abc/</code>

in server.xml on path /etc/tomcat/server.xml I have added following lines.

<Context docBase="/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/abc/" path="/" reloadable="true">

  <Resource auth="Container" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" maxWait="10000" name="jdbc/abcDB" password="abc" type="javax.sql.DataSource" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/abc" username="abc"/>

</Context>

inside the host tag.

When I restart tomcat and hit http://localhost:8080/ nothing appears but when I enter http://localhost:8080/abc home page is displayed which means above entry in server.xml is not taking affect.

What am I doing wrong ??

JoseK JoseK · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-19T17:28:05

Looks like you want to set webapp abc as the default web app (i.e. access it directly via http://localhost:8080/), then give the path as "" not "/" in Context

From the Tomcat docs,

If you specify a context path of an empty string (""), you are defining the default web application for this Host, which will process all requests not assigned to other Contexts

tomcat context defined in server.xml is not loading

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