[chef] Re: Re: Using `artifact` cookbook with Tomcat

[Mark Nichols < >]

> On Feb 15, 2015, at 4:32 PM, Mark Pimentel 
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>  wrote:
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> You could explode the war somewhere else and symlink the current folder 
> into the webapps/foo where tomcat expects to find things.

I tried that, and it does work. However, I wasn’t happy with the idea of 
having a “staging” area where the apps lived that Tomcat was symlinked to. 
We’ve gotten into binds in the past by having non-standard setups. 

The whole current symlink is already a departure (at least for Tomcat).

My hope is that I can use artifact to expand the app and somehow configure 
Tomcat to find the expanded war.

On the surface this seems to be what a context xml file was designed for. 
However I can’t get past the appbase defined on the host. The error I get 
says:

WARNING: A docBase /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/foo/current inside the host 
appBase has been specified, and will be ignored

This happens whether or not I have appbase set to nil (“”) or webapps. Nor 
does it matter where I put the context: I’ve tried in server.xml and in a 
`foo.xml` file under `/etc/tomcat7/Catalina/localhost`

— Mark