An update: I unsuccessfully tried helix84's suggestion and did not have the server permission to try Hilton's suggestion. I contacted our IT person, who got it to work by placing a meta refresh/redirect under dspace/webapps/ROOT/index.html.
Thank you all for your input! David On 13-02-01 1:56 PM, Christian Völker wrote: > Hello, > > I dont believe such battles to be apropriate on a topic > where a seemingly new user of DSpace requests help. > Obviously, there are many ways to solve this issue. > > I guess Hiltons solution is quite a good solution, > however I totally disagree with his reasoning. Debian > has a rather sensible update system that wont break > a thing if used properly. It indicates precisely which > changes it found in the conf files it tries to replace > and you should know about the changes you have made > and why you did so. The apt system lets you edit and > merge these changes right in place or provides you > with path to work on them later. Debian is made > for tailoring it to your needs. > > The fragment solution looks just as cute. However, > I am not completely up to date regarding tomcat Dos > and Donts. Tomcat is a beast of utmost configurability > which leads part-time users, id est 99,95% of all admins > running tomcat to not use any of its powerful features. > Tomcat is also an outstanding example of overwhelming > documentation which seems typical for the Java world btw. > It is hard to pick up the concepts, and as long as you > cant get them, you will only scratch the surface. > As such, I had plans to switch to a more basic server > such as jetty every time I updated my environment, but > I never did so far. There were always more important > tasks to tackle. Tomcats caching and long startup time > make it a particularly bad choice for development. > > I have to offer a third way. My solution is to edit the > build.xml in DSpace to create a directory ROOT instead > of xmlui during the last phase of the update process. > > So, choose wisely, Christian > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > List Etiquette: > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
