Tomcat, Apache, mod_webapp and reloadable

Question

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the best spot to post this, if you know of another group that might be more helpful I'd appreciate the link...
We are currently running Apache and using mod_webapp to connect Tomcat4 to it. We are defining a few applications in mod_webapp.conf, like so:
WebAppConnection conn warp localhost:8008
WebAppDeploy appname conn /appname
Then in the server.xml we define the connector like this:
<Connector className="org.apache.catalina.connector.warp.WarpConnector"
port="8008" minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75"
enableLookups="true" appBase="/dirname"
acceptCount="10" debug="0"/>
The problem is that new class files are not picked up by Tomcat. There does not seem to be a good place to set the customary "reloadable=true" flag for our development application. Does anybody know how I could accomplish this with our setup?
Thanks!
-Eric

Answer 1

Did you create a context for the webapp in the tomcat
conf/server.xml
<Context path="/myApp" docBase="myApp"
reloadable="true" debug="0">
</Context>No, we are just using the "appBase" attribute of the Connector element in the server.xml file to reference each application. It seems to me that we should be defining a Context for each application also, though I'm not sure how we would then use those with the WarpConnector to attach to Apache.
In case it will help, here are the server.xml and mod_webapp.conf contents:
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server.xml
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<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN" debug="0">
<Service name="Tomcat-Apache">
<Connector className="org.apache.catalina.connector.warp.WarpConnector"
port="8008" minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75"
enableLookups="true" appBase="/app03/pactsecm"
acceptCount="10" debug="0"/>
<!-- Replace "localhost" with what your Apache "ServerName" is set to -->
<Engine className="org.apache.catalina.connector.warp.WarpEngine"
name="Apache" debug="0">
<!-- Global logger unless overridden at lower levels -->
<Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
prefix="apache_log." suffix=".txt"
timestamp="true"/>
<!-- Because this Realm is here, an instance will be shared globally -->
<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.MemoryRealm" />
</Engine>
</Service>
</server>
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mod_webapp.conf
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<IfModule mod_webapp.c>
# Define the connection to Tomcat
WebAppConnection conn warp localhost:8008
WebAppDeploy     app     conn     /app
WebAppInfo /stronghold/webapp-info
</IfModule>