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Asked: 2026-05-23T02:14:24+00:00

Everthing I’ve read about Tomcat seems to indicate that when I deploy my web

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Everthing I’ve read about Tomcat seems to indicate that when I deploy my web application, Tomcat will take my context.xml file, copy it to <tomcat-dir><engine-name><host> and rename it to <mywebbappname>.xml.

…only it doesn’t.

I have Liferay 6 bundled with Tomcat 6 deployed on my machine. The context.xml file for my webapp is very basic:

<Context privileged="true" crossContext="true"></Context>

My context.xml file is located under the META-INF directory which is at the same level as my WEB-INF directory.

I think the structure is set up correctly, but when Tomcat deploys the WAR, the context.xml doesn’t get copied or renamed. If I manually create <tomcat-dir>\<engine-name>\<host>\<mywebbappname>.xml everything works fine.

This is okay for development, but I have to restart Tomcat for it to see my context which won’t work in a production environment.

Am I missing some small detail here?

Thanks,

David

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is actually a bug that was recently fixed. The solution is simple in /conf/server.xml search for the deployXML. It will be set to false, instead change this to true and you should see the expected behavior.

    Edit: I’ve also found the issue @ http://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-17916

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