This is weird (cross-posted to Tomcat and Debian Lists): Tomcat 8.5 is going to /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/ROOT

[deloptes]

Longshot....something in .profile of the user the Tomcat instance is
running under?

Neither the "tomcat7" nor "tomcat8" users have .profile files.
This is interesting. I got rid of the Tomcat 8.5 catalina.out files on
both boxes (the one where everything works right, and the one where 8.5
is getting 7's root context) and restarted them, and I got this at the
I'm still stumped. None of the configuration or log files I've looked in
so far appear to have any references to anything in tomcat7.
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JHHL

Start with the startup.sh script - what's in there ... perhaps diff with the
one that works