title: How to change HTML/JS/CSS without restarting Tomcat?
body: <p>Is it possible to configure Tomcat such that it looks in a separate location for my 'webapp' directory while in development? </p>
  
  <p>I have my git source in one directory and tomcat installed in another.  I don't want to have to make changes in two places, or manually copy files over, or rebuild/deploy every time I make a simple change to CSS or Javascript.</p>
  
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  <strong>EDIT</strong> - 2/21/2013</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately none of the suggestions worked and I suspect it may be because I didn't provide enough information about how I have things laid out.</p>
  
  <p>I have Tomcat installed in a directory of my home directory (I'm on a Mac) called "Development".</p>
  
  <pre><code>/Users/dbrogdon/Development/apache-tomcat-7.0.35
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have my git source next to that.</p>
  
  <pre><code>/Users/dbrogdon/Development/myproject
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In the myproject directory, my actual web files are located in:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/Users/dbrogdon/Development/myproject/application/appname/src/main/webapp
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I compile I put the appname.war into</p>
  
  <pre><code>/Users/dbrogdon/Development/apache-tomcat-7.0.35/webapps
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Based on that updated information, what should I be providing as my docBase in either my <code>conf/server.xml</code> or <code>conf/Catalina/localhost/appname.xml</code>?</p>