Document base /path/to/exploded/war/ does not exist or is not a readable directory
I discovered the easy technique where one can point Tomcat at a directory instead of copying stuff into the /webapps dir.
So, I created $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/ma.xml like so:
<Context path="/ma" docBase="/workspace/ma/target/ma" reloadable="true" />
After a few false starts (turns out that Tomcat on Windows doesn’t accept cygwin-style paths even when started from sygwin), I thought I had it sorted.
<Context path="/ma" docBase="d:\workspace\ma\target\ma" reloadable="true" />
but Tomcat was having none of it.
16/06/2011 5:04:23 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext resourcesStart SEVERE: Error starting static Resources java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base D:\workspace\ma\target\ma does not exist or is not a readable directory
Turns out I was being stupid and forgot the trailing slash in the docBase.
Derp.
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