I have tried your given suggestion , but my tomcat doesn't start. I have added host element in server.xml of both workers. also created /var/webapps/domainname directory.
even I can't see anything in catalina.out it is blank.
new virtualhost part from server.xml
<Host name="mycomp.khan.com" appBase=""
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
directory="logs" prefix="mycomp.khan.com_access_log." suffix=".txt"
pattern="combined" resolveHosts="false"/>
<Context path="" docBase="webapps/mycomp.khan.com" reloadable="false" />
I need to use webapp folder as default setup. like, in a default tomcat setup we just need to copy application war file and then it will get unpacked by tomcat . same way it can have multiple application war file deployed.
please help!