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Description of problem:
Reference from issue tracker #51659
Tomcat5 allows developers to provide a tomcat context descriptor inside the war
archive under /META-INF/context.xml (see
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/appdev/deployment.html).  This
file should be unpacked into the /etc/tomcat5/Catalina/localhost/ directory.  
This works fine with the stock jakarta version of tomcat.  However RedHats
version creates an empty directory in the conf directory named ${warname}.xml
instead of unpacking the context.xml file.

To work around this problem, copy the context.xml file to /etc/tomcat5/Catalina/localhost/${warname}.xml by hand before deploying the war.

This problem can be reproduced on an up2date RHEL3 system, with tomcat from RHAS installed, using an example servlet with a META-INF/context.xml file.

In working with this some more I've discovered the problem does not reproduce when using the manager webapp's "deploy" function.  It does reproduce if you just cp the WAR to the /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/ directory and use tomcat's autodeploy feature to deploy the WAR.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tomcat5-5.0.27-2jpp_1rh

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. follow steps provided in the README of the tarball
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Actual Results:  When the servlet is run, it only shows                                                                                 2 properties, both from web.xml, the context.xml file isn't correctly istalled.


Expected Results:  When the servlet is run, it will display the values of some properties, it should display a list of 4 parameter values, 1 whose value comes from web.xml, 3 whose  values come from context.xml.

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