3.2.2  Configuring Tomcat to Recognize the New Application 


To make the Tomcat servlet engine aware of the new application, you have to add a new 


 entry to Tomcat's server.xml configuration file with information on the location of your 


application. Furthermore, the application itself has to be deployed with a configuration file called 


web.xml describing the servlets it contains, as well as other critical application data. The 


necessary steps for a successful set up of the two files are outlined below. 


   Part 1: Configuring the Tomcat servlet engine's configuration file called server.xml. 


Open the server.xml file in a text editor, e.g. emacs. 


$ emacs $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml


The server.xml file already contains some context elements. Navigate to the end of the file, 


and add the new context element, as shown below: 




docBase="/devteam/deployHome"


debug="0"


reloadable="true"


trusted="false" >




The  path attribute indicates the virtual directory under which the browser may access the 


physical document root directory docBase on the server (this should be the directory 


containing the web application   during development, it should be the same directory as the 


deployment home directory specified in the build.xml file). 


Please refer to the Apache Software Foundation's Tomcat application development guide for 


a detailed explanation of the other attributes. 


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