Tomcat alias does not load website

[Gina vernon]

Hi,
I have the following server.xml

<Service name="Catalina">
  
    <Connector port="8443" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol" SSLEnabled="true"
               maxThreads="200" scheme="https" secure="true" debug="0"
		           keystoreFile="keystore" keystorePass="kspwd"		   
               clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" address="ipaddress"/>
    
    <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="portal.company.com">

    
      <Host name="portal.company.com" debug="0" appBase="webapps"            
            unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
        <Context path="/app" docBase="app" reloadable="true" crossContext="true"/>

        <Alias>portal.company.com</Alias>
        <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"  
               prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
               pattern="%h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b" resolveHosts="true"/>
      </Host>
      
    </Engine>
  </Service>

When I try to access the website at https://portal.company.com/, it displays the 'Under Construction' page.

Thanks.

[William Brogden]

Seems to me the appBase attribute needs to point to an absolute file path.

Bill

[Tim Holloway]

To expand on William's answer, it appears that you've configured the host to look for an exploded WAR at TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/app, since TOMCAT_HOME/webapps is the reference point for relative paths (and absolute paths ARE usually recommended). The "explodeWar" attribute would be meaningless since the WAR is expected to be pre-exploded.