I have a Tomcat server fronted by Apache with comms using AJP. The configuration uses JkMount for mapping URLs on Apache to the Tomcat node.
I am helping in the deployment of an application which is built using Maven and therefore is delivered in the form of a file named "my-war-3.0.1.war".
We can do a JkMount declaration of the following style:
JkMount /my-war-3.0.1 my-node
JkMount /my-war-3.0.1/* my-node
But obviously that requires the version number. New releases will mean updating the mounting and the users' bookmarks etc, which obviously isn't a Good Thing.
What I would like is to be able to have the JkMount declaration in the following style:
JkMount /my-war my-node
JkMount /my-war/* my-node
But I'm pretty sure that means that the .war file needs to be named in the same way.
I'm pretty sure it's possible to tell Tomcat to deploy a specified .war under another name using Context file fragments, but all I seem to get are error messages about the war being deployed inside the AppBase.
The environment I'm working in is quite locked down - it would be a lot of testing to be able to change the environment's configuration, so deploying a Context fragment file as a kind of deliverable would be a nice solution.
Is this possible, and if so what should the Context file be and where should it go?
I am using Tomcat 6.0.14, and as I said before, the environment is pretty locked down so it would be a lot of trouble to modify Tomcat configurations/folder structures.
The other solution is of course to remove the version number from the deliverable name, which is acceptable from the point of view of the development team, but I think everyone would prefer that the deliverable had the version number in its name for the sake of clarity.