title: Tomcat context.xml files, is there a hierarchy?
body: <p>I am trying to use symbolic links in one of the applications I have running on Tomcat5.  Thanks to some help from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/315093/configure-symlinks-for-single-directory-in-tomcat">another StackOverflow question</a> I was able to do it 
   by creating a context.xml file in</p>
  
  <p>/...myapplication/META-INF/context.xml</p>
  
  <p>I am now trying to implement this on a production server.  However, there are other applications running on it.  And there is another context file</p>
  
  <p>/...tomcat/conf/context.xml</p>
  
  <p>It seems to me these are setting configurations server-wide to all applications.  If I allowLinks in the conf/context.xml file, my symbolic links work.  If I don't allowLinks in conf/context.xml, my application's symbolic links do not work, even though I have allowed them in the META-INF/context.xml</p>
  
  <p>My question is, does the conf/context.xml control all applications?  If I want symbolic links to work only in one application, do I need to remove the conf/context.xml and create new context files for each application?  Or is there a way I can allow symbolic links in myapplication only?</p>