Tomcat 5.x, context.xml and the caseSensitive attribute.

Hi,
I have already configured a context.xml file in the CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost with the following content:
<Context path="/mysite" docBase="${catalina.home}/webapps/mysite" reloadable="true"/>
It is working, because the servlets can be reloaded after a modification. My goal is to make the URL recognition of the server for may web application case-insensitive. There is an attribute caseSensitive in the <Context> element? Is that right? And this can turn off case-sensitivity of this web application. This means it should also affect the URL recognition. But wen I change the line in the context.xml to
<Context path="/mysite" docBase="${catalina.home}/webapps/mysite" reloadable="true" caseSensitive="false"/>
and try to access the URL with different case then the original it does not find the page. Is this the right place to put the caseSensitive attribute?

i am posting the Car.xml which i created in
/conf/catalina/localhost directory in Tomcat 5.5.7
?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<Context path ="/Car" docBase="C:\Program
Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat
5.5\webapps\Car" debug="0" />Rather than have you working directory under webapps, you can have it elsewhere in your system and refer to it using the docBase attribute. For example, say you have your work directory in d:\work\car,
then
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<Context path ="/Car" docBase="d:/work/car" />would suffice.
cheers,
ram.

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It is this last file that you seem to be talking about. You would normally create it as a directory and file within the source directory for your application, from which you build and deploy a WAR file. For example, you might build the following files and directories into foo.war:
C:\dev\foo\index.jsp
C:\dev\foo\WEB-INF\web.xml
C:\dev\foo\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF
C:\dev\foo\META-INF\Context.xml
This would be built to a WAR file called foo.war that represents a Zip of the contents of the C:\dev\foo directory. Deploying this will cause Tomcat to notice Context.xml and extract its contents into the conf/Catalina/localhost directory as foo.xml

Tomcat 5.x, context.xml and the caseSensitive attribute.

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