Bug 58867

Summary: Having a context.xml in conf prevents redeployment on startup
Product: Tomcat 8 Reporter: Kenneth Gendron <kenneth.gendron>
Component: CatalinaAssignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 8.0.30   
Target Milestone: ----   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Kenneth Gendron 2016-01-14 20:35:11 UTC 
If Tomcat is configured to auto-deploy and deploy-on-startup and a context.xml is in the $CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ folder, the server will not redeploy the application if the timestamp has changed on the WAR file.  If, after startup, the WAR is deployed with a different timestamp, then the application is redeployed as normal.

Is this normal?

I was trying to ensure that certain applications get deployed first by having their context.xml files deployed to the conf folder, which works; however, it precludes the use of the on-startup-redeploy feature introduced some time ago.

Thanks,

Ken
Comment 1 Konstantin Kolinko 2016-01-15 12:44:43 UTC 
Please provide a step-by-step recipe to reproduce your issue
http://tomcat.apache.org/bugreport.html#How_to_write_a_bug_report

Your description is not clear.
Comment 2 Mark Thomas 2016-01-20 21:28:02 UTC 
I figured out what the report was about.

This has been fixed in 9.0.x for 9.0.0.M2 onwards and in 8.0.x for 8.0.31 onwards. I included a test case that confirms the WAR is expanded if it changes while Tomcat is stopped irrespective of deployOnStartUp or autoDeploy.