Tomcat 7 not auto unpacking war - tomcat7

Question

I want to deploy my app as root app so I renamed my war to ROOT.war. Default server.xml looks like -
<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
<!-- SingleSignOn valve, share authentication between web applications
Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html -->
<!--
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn" />
-->
<!-- Access log processes all example.
Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html
Note: The pattern used is equivalent to using pattern="common" -->
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
pattern="%h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b" />
</Host>
I also need to serve some static content. So I added Context tag-
<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
<!-- SingleSignOn valve, share authentication between web applications
Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html -->
<!--
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn" />
-->
<Context docBase="/home/athakur/Documents/UI" path="/" />
<!-- Access log processes all example.
Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html
Note: The pattern used is equivalent to using pattern="common" -->
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
pattern="%h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b" />
</Host>
I want to serve static content from this path and apis from my ROOT.war. But as soon as I add context element ROOT.war is not expanding and getting deployed. When I remove the context path it does. Also UI is correctly rendered from the path post adding context tag. So don't want to change that behavior either.

Answer 1

Looks like we cannot do this. We cannot have two context with same path and different docBase under same host. So you cannot have -
<Context docBase="/home/athakur/Documents/UI" path="/" />
<Context docBase="ROOT" path="/" />
So I had to settle for
<Context docBase="/home/athakur/Documents/UI" path="/" />
<Context docBase="ROOT" path="/apis" />
If you however want to do it at root level only then you need to do it from inside your webapp.
Docs - https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/context.html