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    <p>Is there a way to set a relative path to the <strong>docBase</strong> attribute in the context.xml of a web application, so it is outside of the appBase directory of the tomcat server instance?</p> <p>I would like to be able to share the context configuration between computers and have the app living in a directory, not a war file. That way i can compile the classes directly into that directory (in my project development directory) and have tomcat use these classes without any copying/packaging needed.</p> <p>I am using the tomcat 8.0.0-RC5. My directory Layout is:</p> <pre><code>/home/david/projects/frontend/web-content &lt;-- the static html files /home/david/projects/frontend/web-content/WEB-INF &lt;-- the WEB-INF with the web.xml /home/david/projects/tomcat &lt;-- tomcat base directory /home/david/projects/tomcat/Catalina/localhost &lt;-- holds the frontend.xml context configuration </code></pre> <p>I have tried </p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;Context path="/frontend" docBase="../../frontend/web-content"&gt; &lt;/Context&gt; </code></pre> <p>but that did not work. The whole path before /web-content seems to be ignored. The log says:</p> <pre><code>The main resource set specified [/home/david/projects/tomcat/webapps/web-content] is not valid </code></pre> <p>The <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/context.html#Common_Attributes" rel="noreferrer">Tomcat 8 documentation</a> for the context container says:</p> <blockquote> <p>You may specify an absolute pathname for this directory or WAR file, or a pathname that is relative to the appBase directory of the owning Host.</p> </blockquote> <p>Does relative here mean a strict subdirectory of appBase (no .. allowed)?</p> <p>Setting an absolute path works without problems. The configuration</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;Context path="/frontend" docBase="/home/david/projects/frontend/web-content"&gt; &lt;/Context&gt; </code></pre> <p>works, but it is specific to my computer. So I cannot share the context configuration without modification anymore.</p> <p>I could create a symbolic link inside the appBase directory of the tomcat server and let it point to the web-content folder of my application. This would work, but I would have different configurations (symbolic links) on linux and windows machines.</p>
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