I like to put machine-specific configuration in the context descriptor outside of the WAR. However, when I drop in a new WAR on a running Tomcat instance, Tomcat deletes my context descriptor. (No, there is no context descriptor in the WAR.) I wanted to be able to deploy an updated web application without restarting Tomcat and using the machine-specific configuration in conf\/Catalina\/localhost\/myapp.xml. But when I drop in the WAR, my configuration file is destroyed.<\/p>\n
Steps to reproduce (I’m on Windows XP with Java 1.5):
\n1) Download Tomcat 5.5.26 and unzip
\n2) Create conf\/Catalina\/localhost\/test.xml
\n3) Create a webapps\/test.war containing some simple files (no META-INF directory)
\n4) Start tomcat
\n5) Create a new test.war and copy over the old one
\n6) Note that conf\/Catalina\/localhost\/test.xml has disappeared<\/p>\n
It looks like it’s back to using server.xml. Apache refuses<\/a> to fix this, even though the separate-file-per-context was clearly intended<\/a> to replace context-specific changes in server.xml.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I like to put machine-specific configuration in the context descriptor outside of the WAR. However, when I drop in a new WAR on a running Tomcat instance, Tomcat deletes my context descriptor. (No, there is no context descriptor in the WAR.) I wanted to be able to deploy an updated web application without restarting Tomcat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-java"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}