Tomcat: two context pathes for one webapp

Question

Hi,

I have been trying to solve a problem, but I have not found any good solution yet. The problem is: I have a web app and this web app is deployed to the $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/XXX directory. I can reach that on the http://localhost:8080/XXX address BUT, I would like to reach the web app on the http://localhost:8080/YYY address too. I added the following to the server.xml: `

<Service>
    <Engine>
        <Host>
            .......
            <Context path="/YYY" docBase="XXX"></Context>
        </Host>
    </Engine>
</Service>

`

It helped but the Tomcat started two web contexts and it caused some other problem. Is it possible to create a "multiple" address for one web app?

Answer 1

Try using the crossContext attribute:

<Context path="/YYY" docBase="XXX" crossContext="true"></Context>

Answer 2

it caused some other problem.

Let me guess, the actual problem is that they both use their own HttpSession and don't share it? In that case you need to set the HTTP connector's emptySessionPath attribute to true. The only pitfall is that this affects all webapplications on the same server.

If that is not the actual problem, then you need to elaborate a bit more about it so that we can give more suitable answers.