如果没有部署应用程序 <context> 在tomcat的server.xml之外定义

Question

<context> works just fine if I define it within <host> in server.xml but if I create a file called manager.xml in conf/Catalina/localhost , the application is not getting deployed. Am I missing anything ?

Here is the manager.xml

<Context path="/manager" docBase="/var/tomcat/webapps/manager" privileged="true">
  </Context>

Answer 1

Found the issue. It was due to deployonStartup is set to false. I have changed this to true and I'm able to use context.xml outside of war file now.