How to run hippo CMS with system tomcat instead of the bundled one?

[Eric Nguyen personal]

My ultimate goal is to be able to server the static files e.g. CSS outside of the WAR file

[Eric Nguyen personal]

How do I configure the docBase under <Host> tag in Tomcat server.xml as mentioned here?

[Martijn Hodenpijl]

Hi, 

Using the host tag in the context.xml of Tomcat is never done before, AFAIK. I can give you some pointers ...

The context.xml you can find under the folder conf/ in your Hippo project. The configuration is described in the Tomcat documentation (http://tomcat.apache.org/). This configuration depends on the Tomcat version you use. If you deploy to a server, you need to take care that Tomcat picks up the context.xml from your project (see http://www.onehippo.org/library/deployment/create-and-deploy-a-project-distribution.html). Locally the Maven cargo plugin will take care of this (see http://www.onehippo.org/library/development/run-and-develop-with-cargo.html). 

Make sure you exclude the folder with static images from the hst:host configuration, as described in the first paragraph of http://www.onehippo.org/library/concepts/request-handling/mount-matching.html

I am not sure if your solution will work, as said. I have never seen it in projects. 

Usually projects use Apache to server static images outside the WAR files. If you want to use Apache with Hippo, see http://www.onehippo.org/library/deployment/configuring/configure-apache-httpd-web-server-for-sites.html. 

I hope this helps,

Martijn

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