This is a duplicate of Bug 39817 and 40130. I am resubmitting because I did not get an answer to my question. What is the proper Tomcat configuration for my application in 5.5.17? I have reviewed the online docs and I cannot hit my login page, nor does my application run my listeners on startup. What am I doing wrong, in comparison to 5.5.12? My setup is as follows: server.xml <host name="concept" appBase="D:\webapps\Concept" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"/> context.xml (under D:\webapps\Concept\ROOT folder) <context path="" docBase=""/> Code structure d:\webapps\Concept\catalog (contains jsps) d:\webapps\Concept\core (contains jsps) d:\webapps\Concept\WEB-INF (contains compiled classes/libs) /core/*.jsp are included properly /catalog/*.jsp are NOT included properly What is the difference between those 2 folders? Tomcat Manager shows a "context" for each JSP folder (catalog, core, etc), in addition to /, and other contexts I have created in Catalina/concept folder. Why is this different from previous versions?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39817 ***
With <host name="concept" appBase="D:\webapps\Concept" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"/>, it should be painfully obvious that Tomcat will attempt to deploy whatever folders are in your "D:\webapps\Concept" folder as webapps.