'Apache Tomcat under Windows: Changing webapps default directory

I am deploying my Java application with Ant. Unfortunately my test deployment on the local machine doesn't work because of Vista. The Program Files directionaries are protected and i don't want to start Ant or Eclipse as an Admin. So i had the idea to move my webapps folder to a workspace subfolder, so i can use relative paths in Ant as well.

The solutions seems to be to modify the Host element in the server.xml. With Linux it isn't such a deal:

  <Host name="localhost"  appBase="/path/to/webapps"
        unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
        xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">

But with Windows i don't get it right. I tried every possible combinations i could imagine, like:

      C://Users//maerch//Workspaces//Tomcat6.0_webapps
      C:/Users/maerch/Workspaces/Tomcat6.0_webapps
      C:\Users\maerch\Workspaces\Tomcat6.0_webapps
      C:\\Users\\maerch\\Workspaces\\Tomcat6.0_webapps
      C://Users//maerch//Workspaces//Tomcat6.0_webapps\\
      C:/Users/maerch/Workspaces/Tomcat6.0_webapps/
      C:\Users\maerch\Workspaces\Tomcat6.0_webapps\
      C:\\Users\\maerch\\Workspaces\\Tomcat6.0_webapps\\

The path is also correct, but it doesn't work. There are also no error messages in the log files neither the browser shows a 404 message or anything else. Just a white page without title and so on. Can anyone help?

tomcat web-applications

Solution 1:^[1]

The following should work in Windows:

C:/Users/maerch/Workspaces/Tomcat6.0_webapps/
/Users/maerch/Workspaces/Tomcat6.0_webapps/

Windows also support Unix's slash (/), so it's a good idea to use this instead of Windows's (\). Also the 'default root' for Windows is C:, so you shouldn't need it in an absolute path.

I don't think this is a problem with the path. Perhaps you could try use a relative path:

"../../../Users/..."

It may also be good idea to install Tomcat in a directory where you have full access.

Solution 2:^[2]

for windows

appBase="c://webapps2"

Solution 3:^[3]

What if you copy the same webapps directory to another location and change the path in server.xml file. If we would do this then definitely i believe we won't have any probs because whenever things webapps need to deploy an application it will have.

Solution 4:^[4]

I tried in Apache tomcat version 8.5 and simply using appBase="c:\path\to\webapps" worked seamlessly

Solution 5:^[5]

If you are using Apache Tomcat then update following file C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\ABCFolder\bin\Tomcat9w.exe

Change the ${catalina.home} path

Double click on Tomcat9w.exe and update all the paths.

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Solution 4	nandan
Solution 5	Shivam Srivastava

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