To be safe, you really ought to use request.getContextPath() to prefix the absolute URL of your css file relative to your document root. When you deploy to a context like: http://myhost:myport/mycontext All of your paths are prefixed by /mycontext. But if you change your deployment descriptor, you might change "mycontext" to something else. You don't want that hard-coded into your servlets. Also, the suggestion by elephantwalker is true - you can use relative paths (/mycontext/servlet/../blah.css will get you to /mycontext/blah.css) but if you decide to put your servlet in a package, or map a different URL pattern to it (e.g. /mycontext/MyServlet) this won't work. Using request.getContextPath() plus an absolute path is guaranteed to work so long as the resource stays where you put it relative to the document root. It also comes in very handy when you put the reference in a JSP - sometimes the JSP will be called directly (so the browser URL is /mycontext/myjsp.jsp) but sometimes you get there using a RequestDispatcher, so the browser thinks the URL is /mycontext/servlet/MyServlet. In this case, relative URLs don't work. So, put the css file in your document root and use: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<%= request.getContextPath() %>/blah.css" title="blah"> if your JSPs and out.println("<link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\" " + request.getContextPath() + "/blah.css\" title=\"blah\">"); in your servlets. John H. "elephantwalker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@orionserver.com on 06/20/2001 05:55:45 PM Please respond to Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: Aaarrrghhh!! CSS and Servlet again The url pattern for your servlet is the issue. Somehow it is "/", which means just about everthing. I would use something different like, /employees or /employees.html. Your path to the css should be just "../blah.css", and include the blah.css in your war file at the root. regards, the elephantwalker
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brynolf Andersson Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:28 PM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Aaarrrghhh!! CSS and Servlet again Hi all again, I have been trying all lot of different ways to pick uppthe CSS file but without any success. So I'll try to see if anyone has some more thing to add to my problem. The question is still there, where should I put my CSS file and how should I pick it up from the servlet. Som information: server.xml: <application name="Lab01" path="C:\oracle\JDeveloper 3.2.3\myprojects\lab_01" /> default-web-site.xml: <!-- LAB 01 --> <web-app application="Lab01" name="web" root="/lab01" /> web.xml: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd";> <web-app> <display-name>Lab 01</display-name> <description>desc</description> <servlet> <servlet-name>EmployeeServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>training.EmployeeServlet</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>training.EmployeeServlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> --> </servlet-mapping> </web-app> application.xml: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE application PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD J2EE Application 1.2//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/application_1_2.dtd";> <display-name>Lab01</display-name> <module> <web> <web-uri>web</web-uri> <context-root>/</context-root> </web> </module> </application> Directory structure of the WEB-APP: _lab_01 |_META-INF | |_application.xml |_web |____|WEB-INF |____________|web.xml |____________________|classes |____________________________|pkg |________________________________|myServlet Help Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
