Bug 49451

Summary: Incorrect label on 'Context Path' when provisioning a new app
Product: Tomcat 6 Reporter: anomaly256
Component: Manager applicationAssignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: default   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   

Description anomaly256 2010-06-16 22:49:40 UTC 
When deploying a new web application, the Manager app states quite clearly that the Context Path field is 'Optional'.  It is however /required/ and the deployment will fail unless a valid one is provided.  The documentation even states that at a minimum this has to be a single '/' unless specifying the ROOT application.

Furthermore, the very succinct and unhelpful error message mentions nothing regarding this expected format.
Comment 1 anomaly256 2010-06-16 22:56:28 UTC 
Correction, the documentation states that it must start with a '/', and that it must be provided unless specifying the ROOT application.  However it still fails unless you specify one, when when you intend to reference the root app
Comment 2 Mark Thomas 2010-06-22 05:41:08 UTC 
This was fixed in 6.0.19 onwards.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 46115 ***