Change deploy folder of Tomcat 7

Question

I need to deploy a .war project in the folder /home/username/web (for instance), but i can't solve this.

Apache is pointing to this folder. But the only thing that I see is the .war that I copy there.

I think that the problem is that Tomcat is pointing to webapp folder instead mine. Can I change that? And how?

Thanks!

EDITED

I edit server.xml file to add a host with the appBase attribute to /home/username/web. But now I get the error that the directory does nos exist or is not a directory. I think that is a permission issue.

Answer 1

You can change this by updating the appBase attribute: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/host.html