tomcat context defined in server.xml is not loading

Question

i have a web app deployed on path

/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/abc/

in server.xml on path /etc/tomcat/server.xml i have added following lines.

<Context docBase="/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/abc/" path="/" reloadable="true">

  <Resource auth="Container" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" maxWait="10000" name="jdbc/abcDB" password="abc" type="javax.sql.DataSource" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/abc" username="abc"/>

</Context>

inside the host tag.

now when i restart tomcat ... and hit http://localhost:8080/ nothing appears but when I enter http://localhost:8080/abc home page is displayed which means above entry in server.xml is not taking affect.

What am i doing wrong ??

Answer 1

Looks like you want to set webapp abc as the default web app (i.e. access it directly via http://localhost:8080/), then give the path as "" not "/" in Context

From the Tomcat docs,

If you specify a context path of an empty string (""), you are defining the default web application for this Host, which will process all requests not assigned to other Contexts