Tomcat context file

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Enter the following to the ROOT. Improve this answer. Paaske Paaske 4, 1 1 gold badge 19 19 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. Will this work with other wars in the regular webapps folder? To solve the double-deployment you can also set both "deployOnStartup" and "autoDeploy" false of Host attribute in the server.

This is with VMWare's vfabric tc development server Be warned. Show 18 more comments. There is also a context xml tag in server. In Tomcat 9. This is already addressed by the accepted answer. Jorge Sanchez Jorge Sanchez 1, 1 1 gold badge 12 12 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges.

This is in server. According to e. Mojtehedy above that's problematic. Seems to work fine. Of course, you don't want the ROOT application to exist in the same webapps folder to conflict with yours. It's not recommended to update the server configuration like server. Ivan Ivan 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Rajesh Gheware Rajesh Gheware 9 9 bronze badges. Is that docBase directory absolute or relative to a specific folder?

I tried this, but its not working. I even restarted Tomcat. What am I doing wrong? When I make the path null it doesn't reach my app : — Derrops. Mojtehedy Ali. Mojtehedy 2, 1 1 gold badge 13 13 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges.

Vipin Yadav Vipin Yadav 5 5 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. It is one of the Critical Security Vulnerability. These are the list of Steps you can do at an instant basis to Secure your Context. By Default, the Password in Context.

So we are left out with only one option which is to write our own Encryption and Decryption Mechanism and a DataSource Implementation. DataSourceFactory in context. After Executing and Encrypting your password you need to perform the following Three steps as shown in the preceding Sample Execution output.

Here is the Context. In the file, The factory and password elements are highlighted in Yellow colour. Rest of the configuration elements would be as same as the Traditional org. DataSourceFactory configuration.

After performing all these steps It is necessary you need to restart the Subjected Tomcat Instance for the changes to take effect. If everything is all right, you would be able to see the Something Similiar to this. Is not it Good?. WhileTroubleshooting an issue where your application is not working properly.

Updating a WAR file will trigger an undeploy of the application with the removal of any associated expanded directory, context file and work directory. Updating a directory not the directory contents will trigger an undeploy of the application with the removal of any associated context file and work directory.

Improve this answer. Jan Zyka Jan Zyka 2 2 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. This is not a complete answer - see serverfault. The thing is that if you just add a link, the target of the link may disappear, making the answer useless. That's why serverfault. And when I commented, the rest of the text wasn't visible. I'd still recommend actually posting a more complete response rather than a brief summary of the link.

That's simply not true. The original answer contained and still does short summary of what you can find under the link. Without the link the answer still make perfect sense and together with the link you can find details. But I didn't plan to be offensive so sorry if it sounded like that : I'm not much into this web, just was solving the same and wanted to share.

Show 4 more comments. Gabriel Glenn Gabriel Glenn 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges. Cant answer the Why bit. JoseK JoseK 6 6 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. TheDude TheDude 1 1 bronze badge. Unfortunately, that makes development harder as I would have to restart Tomcat after each build. I realize this is an old thread, but I thought I would share what I found to fix this problem Larry Larry 1. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

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