1. Is it really necessary to make nutch the root web application in tomcat? I'd prefer not to change my root web application.
yes! Or you change the links in all jsp files.
2. When using intranet crawling, is it necessary that tomcat is started in the parent directory of the segments dir? Or is that configurable in one way or another?You can setup the path to the segment folder in the nutch-default or nutch site xml.
If you use an relative path you need to take care where you start tomcat or you use a absolute patch.
