Allow to not create neutral default page. Add Context to server.xml

defaults/main.yml

@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ tomcat_instances:
     access_log_pattern: "{{ tomcat_access_log_pattern }}"
     service_state: "{{ tomcat_service_state }}"
     service_enabled: "{{ tomcat_service_enabled }}"
+    neutral_default_page: "{{ tomcat_neutral_default_page }}"
+
+# Deploy a neutral default page
+tomcat_neutral_default_page: yes
 
 # The explicit version to use when referring to the short name.
 tomcat_version7: 7.0.107
@@ -80,3 +84,4 @@ _tomcat_unarchive_urls:
     url: "{{ tomcat_mirror }}/dist/tomcat/tomcat-9/v{{ tomcat_version9 }}/bin/apache-tomcat-{{ tomcat_version9 }}.tar.gz"
 
 tomcat_unarchive_url: "{{ _tomcat_unarchive_urls[tomcat_version].url }}"
+

tasks/instance.yml

@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@
     owner: "{{ instance.user | default(tomcat_user) }}"
     group: "{{ instance.group | default(tomcat_group) }}"
     mode: "0640"
+  when:
+    - instance.neutral_default_page
 
 - name: loop over config_files
   ansible.builtin.include: config_file.yml

templates/server.xml.j2

@@ -160,7 +160,12 @@
       </Realm>
 
       <Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps"
-            unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
+            unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="{{ instance.autodeploy|default("true") }}">
+
+{% if instance.context is defined %}
+        <Context path="{{ instance.context.path }}" docBase="{{ instance.context.docBase }}"
+                 debug="{{ instance.context.debug|default("0") }}" reloadable="{{ instance.context.reloadable|default("true") }}" />
+{% endif %}
 
         <!-- SingleSignOn valve, share authentication between web applications
              Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html -->