Bug 819112

Summary: tomcat doesn't deploy context file properly
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Samuel Sieb <samuel-rhbugs>
Component: tomcatAssignee: Ivan Afonichev <ivan.afonichev>
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Description Samuel Sieb 2012-05-04 21:24:25 UTC 
In the WEB-INF folder of my webapp, which I'll call ABC, there is a context.xml containing a jdbc resource.  When tomcat deploys the war file, the context.xml is ignored.  Some research on the web suggested that the context should be in a file called ABC.xml in /etc/tomcat/Catalina/localhost and that tomcat should automatically copy it there.  I copied my context.xml file to that location as ABC.xml and the jdbc resource works.  However, when I deployed a new version of my ABC.war file, the context file in /etc/tomcat/Catalina/localhost was removed and jdbc stopped working again.  I tried naming the file in WEB-INF as ABC.xml instead of context.xml and that didn't make any difference.  There shouldn't be a permissions problem, since tomcat is able to delete files out of the directory.  Am I doing something wrong or is tomcat?
Comment 1 Ivan Afonichev 2012-05-04 21:33:25 UTC 
As far as I know context.xml should be placed in META-INF folder. Not in WEB-INF.
Comment 2 Samuel Sieb 2012-05-04 21:44:06 UTC 
Yep, sorry, it was me doing it wrong...  Jetty has it's config in the WEB-INF folder, so I wrongly assumed the context.xml would be there too.