How does Tomcat locate the webapps directory

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How does Tomcat locate webapps directory  Where is this location set  Is it a relative directory

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It can be changed in the  CATALINA BASE conf server xml in the  lt Host   gt    See the Tomcat documentation  specifically the section in regards to the Host container   Tomcat 6 Configuration  Tomcat 7 Configuration  The default is webapps relative to the  CATALINA BASE  An absolute pathname can be used   Hope that helps

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Find server xml at  CATALINA BASE conf server xml  Find appBase attribute in  lt Host gt  element  by default it will be something like    lt Host name  localhost  appBase  webapps     gt   Change appBase to your required path  There are different way people put it  but I use   c  myfolder newwebapps   Remember  no slash at the end  but at start  Also note it s direction as well

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Change appBase in server xml  If you want to keep both previous webapps and a new one  you can use another Host instance with another port defined in tomcat

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I m using Tomcat through XAMPP which might have been the cause of this problem  When I changed appBase  C  Java Project    for example  I kept getting  This localhost page can t be found  in the browser   I had to add a folder called ROOT inside the Java Project folder and then it worked  Any files you re working on have to be inside this ROOT folder but you need to leave appBase  C  Java Project   as changing it to appBase  C  Java Project ROOT  will cause  This localhost page can t be found  to be displayed again   Maybe needing the ROOT folder is obvious to more experienced Java developers but it wasn t for me so hopefully this helps anyone else encountering the same problem

[tomcat] How does Tomcat locate the webapps directory?

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