Last night, I was completing the Railo install with Tomcat on Windows 7. As I was wrapping up, I noticed something odd. Railo's WEB-INF directories were all over the place in Tomcat's subfolders and they weren't supposed to be.  It's because of my server.xml <host> was wrong.

I had:

<Host name="testhost1">
	<Context path="" docBase="C:/Dev/websites/testhost1" />
</Host>
<Host name="testhost2">
	<Context path="" docBase="C:/Dev/websites/testhost2" />
</Host>

When it should have been:

<Host name="testhost1" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">>
	<Context path="" docBase="C:/Dev/websites/testhost1" />
</Host>
<Host name="testhost2" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">>
	<Context path="" docBase="C:/Dev/websites/testhost2" />
</Host>

Thanks to Sean Corfield and Jamie Krug for the assist. As soon as they mentioned it, I facepalmed. I figured because I wasn't setting up Railo wars, that I could do away with all the extra attributes and it was a bad assumption on my part.

I've already fixed my previous blog post. Sorry for the issues.

Leigh wrote on 12/15/09 4:56 PM

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