How to change webapp folder on Tomcat

Question

I use tomcat 8.5.31 on Windows Server 2012 r2.

I need to change webapp folder from: C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 8.5\webapps to C:\Alessandrotest\webapps

I tried to modify in conf/server.xml this parameters:

>      <Host name="localhost"
            appBase="webapps"
            unpackWARs="true"
            autoDeploy="true" >

In this mode

>      <Host name="localhost"
            appBase="/C:/Alessandrotest/webapps"
            unpackWARs="true"
            autoDeploy="true" >

But it doesn't work.

Answer 1

Could you use below syntax and test.

<Host name="localhost"
            appBase="C:/Alessandrotest/webapps"
            unpackWARs="true"
            autoDeploy="true" >