[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (JBAS-6562) Context entries don't work as explained in tomcat docs.

[Vicky Kak (JIRA)]

Context entries don't work as explained in tomcat docs.
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                 Key: JBAS-6562
                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-6562
             Project: JBoss Application Server
          Issue Type: Feature Request
      Security Level: Public (Everyone can see)
          Components: Web (Tomcat) service
            Reporter: Vicky Kak
            Assignee: Vicky Kak
             Fix For: JBossAS-5.1.0.Beta1, JBossAS-4.2.4.GA


The documentation about the context configuration in Tomcat does not work in JbossAS deployments.

I have just spend some time looking at the related code at
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/branches/JBPAPP_4_2/tomcat/src/main/org/jboss/web/tomcat/service/TomcatDeployer.java

Here is the code snippet
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private String findConfig(URL warURL) throws IOException
  {
     String result = null;
     // See if the warUrl is a dir or a file
     File warFile = new File(warURL.getFile());
     if (warURL.getProtocol().equals("file") && warFile.isDirectory() == true)
     {
        File webDD = new File(warFile, CONTEXT_CONFIG_FILE);
        if (webDD.exists() == true) result = webDD.getAbsolutePath();
     }
     else
     {
        ZipFile zipFile = new ZipFile(warFile);
        ZipEntry entry = zipFile.getEntry(CONTEXT_CONFIG_FILE);
        if (entry != null)
        {
           InputStream zipIS = zipFile.getInputStream(entry);
           byte[] buffer = new byte[512];
           int bytes;
           result = warFile.getAbsolutePath() + "-context.xml";
           FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(result);
           while ((bytes = zipIS.read(buffer)) > 0)
           {
              fos.write(buffer, 0, bytes);
           }
           zipIS.close();
           fos.close();
        }
        zipFile.close();
     }
     return result;
  }
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This code needs to be modified in such a way that it uses these configurations

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1. in the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/context.xml.default file: the Context element information will be loaded by all webapps of that host

2. in individual files (with a ".xml" extension) in the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ directory. The name of the file (less the .xml) extension will be used as the context path. Multi-level context paths may be defined using #, e.g. context#path.xml. The default web application may be defined by using a file called ROOT.xml.

3. if the previous file was not found for this application, in an individual file at /META-INF/context.xml inside the application files
inside a Host element in the main conf/server.xml
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The point[3] is already rejected earlier by Scott, here is the related jira
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-2290



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