Looks like it is complaining about the path. Have you tried using C:\edevis instead of C:/edevis for your appBase and docBase?
-----Original Message----- From: Dominique Batard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 8:45 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Tomcat 5.0.7 Host default Context docBase Hi Trying to run a Tomcat 4.1.24 web app using Tomcat 5.0.7. Host and context parameters : <Host name="edevis" debug="0" appBase="c:/edevis" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" > <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs" prefix="edevis_access_log." suffix=".txt" pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" directory="logs" prefix="edevis_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/> <Context path="" docBase="c:/edevis" reloadable="true" workDir="c:/edevis/work/org/apache/jsp"/> </Host> Whatever I put in this virtual host default context docBase (c:/edevis, or .) , when I start tomcat, I get : 20 août 2003 17:28:30 org.apache.commons.digester.Digester startElement GRAVE: Begin event threw exception java.io.IOException: Syntaxe du nom de fichier, de répertoire ou de volume incorrecte at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.canonicalize0(Native Method) at java.io.Win32FileSystem.canonicalize(Win32FileSystem.java:352) at java.io.File.getCanonicalPath(File.java:513) at java.io.File.getCanonicalFile(File.java:534) at org.apache.catalina.startup.SetDocBaseRule.begin(SetDocBaseRule.java:137) at org.apache.commons.digester.Rule.begin(Rule.java:200) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.startElement(Digester.java:1273) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractXMLDocumentParser.emptyElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unkno wn Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatc her.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1548) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:512) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:550) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39 ) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl .java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:260) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:393) and tomcat doesn't want to start If i suppress <Context path="" docBase="c:/edevis" ..... , I don't have any error, but the web app doesn't run. The jakarta docs don't show any difference about virtual hosts and default contexts between 4.1.x and 5.0.x Dom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]