Tomcat not able to get ServletContext of another webapp
servlet-filters, servlets, tomcat
Solution
Set crossContext = "true" in the server.xml. See the documentation for the context container.
Set to true if you want calls within this application to ServletContext.getContext() to successfully return a request dispatcher for other web applications running on this virtual host. Set to false (the default) in security conscious environments, to make getContext() always return null.
Problem
I am using tomcat 6 and I have two webapps. One is webapp1 and the other one is webapp2. From a filter inside webapp2, I am trying to access the other webapp i.e webapp1. My Filter code is something like below ``` public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException { HttpServletRequest req = (HttpServletRequest)request; System.out.println("requeted path = " + req.getRequestURI()); ServletContext othercontext = confg.getServletContext().getContext("/webapp1"); RequestDispatcher dispatcher = othercontext.getRequestDispatcher(req.getRequestURI()); dispatcher.forward(request, response); chain.doFilter(request, response); } ``` Any Idea what I am doing wrong ? I am always getting null as the othercontext value.