Hope someone can help with a config problem I'm having. Many thanks in
advance for at least taking a look.

I'm building a WAR using Netbeans 5.5.1. The WAR takes its name from
the project root directory, so I end up with MyProjectRoot.war. I drop
this into the webapps folder under Tomcat 5.5, and it gets expanded
out into a directory of its own called MyProjectRoot. This has a META-
INF directory, containing a context.xml file, which has the following
contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context path="/MyURL"/>

in other words, I want to be able to access the webapp using:

http://<server>:8080/MyURL

However, I can only access the webapp at:

http://<server>:8080/MyProjectRoot

I've noticed that a new file has been generated in the directory:

Tomcat 5.5\conf\Catalina\localhost

This is called MyProjectRoot.xml, and has the following contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context path="/MyURL"/>

At the moment, I can work around by renaming the WAR prior to
deployment; but this should ideally be configurable.

Can anyone advise on how I can use the webapp configuration to force
the URL that I want? I thought the context.xml contents would do that:
it seems to work OK with the NetBeans bundled Tomcat during
development - although the webapp then lives outside the Tomcat
hierarchy.

Thanks again to all who read this far, and especially to anyone who
can advise on how to achieve this!

Ron