Hi, This seems like an obvious question but I'd appreciate any answers. I have several webapps running under tomcat that need to be able to include the same sidebar in their .jps. if the sidebar is within the context, this works fine:
<%@ include file="sidebar.html" %> However this requires me to keep a copy of sidebar.html (and all the images) in each .war. I'd rather keep a single copy of sidebar.html. If I make a new context "static" in tomcat and place the sidebar + images there, I can access it fine in my browser with the url: http://localhost:8080/static/sidebar.html but the naive change to the jsp: <%@ include file="../static/sidebar.html" %> fails with "the path specifies a resource outside the web application". Using jstl and import: <c:import url="../static/sidebar.html"/> leads to: javax.servlet.jsp.JspTagException: /../static/sidebar.html However, if I use the absolute path: <c:import url="http://localhost:8080/static/sidebar.html"/> the page is fine, but because the paths to the images are copied directly from sidebar.html and included in the .jsp they are incorrect. It seems to me that what I'm trying to accomplish is a fairly common thing; I'd appreciate any pointers. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Jones Bioinformatics Team Centres for Cardiovascular Science and Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Queen's Medical Research Institute, 47 Little France Crescent Edinburgh EH16 4TJ United Kingdom T: +44 131 242 6700 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
