AppFuseOnTomcat

Tips and tricks for configuring Tomcat to run your AppFuse application

Run AppFuse in Tomcat's ROOT context
1. With a fresh tomcat install edit $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml and set autoDeploy="false" for Host localhost.
2. Run 'ant setup' from a fresh AppFuse install
3. rm $CATALINA_HOME/wabapps/appfuse/META-INF/context.xml
4. In your appfuse.xml (or metadata/conf/tomcat-context.xml), use the following:

    <Context path="" docBase="ROOT"

This works for me and after testing many different options for several days - this seems to be the *only* way to make an app the root app on Tomcat.

In tomcat 5.5 it worked when I set the and then created a link from tomcat/conf/Catalina//ROOT.xml to appfuse.xml. This requires having a unixy filesystem. But it may be easier than keeping appfuse war, and dir in sync. Justin Spears