How to re-direct the default Tomcat home page
Sorry, this is a newbie question. I am using Tomcat 5.0.x. on Linux. I'm having problems redirecting to my webapps home page from the default Tomcat home page ($CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT/index.jsp). Here's mywebapp.xml file that I placed in the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost dir: Context path= docBase=/home/mywebapp/mywebapp.war /Context As you can see, the path attribute is an empty string, and according to the Tomcat documentation, this should be the default web application. But instead, the tomcat default home page still appears. How to config the tomcat so that I can get my home page just by typing Http://localhost:8080? Do I have to explicitly undeploy the default tomcat app? Any clues? Thanks.
where to place the /META-INF/context.xml file?
Hi, Apologies, but this is a newbie question. In the tomcat docs, it states that A /META-INF/context.xml file can be used to define Tomcat specific configuration... Could you please tell me where /META-INF/context.xml should be placed relative to the web application root? In other words, if I have a web application in a directory /MyWebApp, should the /META-INF be at /MyWebApp/META-INF or should it be under /WEB-INF? Thanks.
tomcat war expansion fails on .cvsignore file
Hi, I have a .cvsignore file at the top level of my war file. does anyone has any idea what this error message is about? This errors occurs when Tomcat is started up, expanding the war file under webapps. Thanks! Sep 6, 2005 5:09:30 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWARs WARNING: Exception while expanding web application archive magicbillboard.war Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack location - find_vma failed Catalina.start using conf/server.xml: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/lampp/webapps/magicbillboard/.cvsignore (No such file or directory) java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/lampp/webapps/magicbillboard/.cvsignore (No such file or directory) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.createSAXException(Digester.java:2540) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.createSAXException(Digester.java:2566) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.startElement(Digester.java:1276)
Preserving session state from https to http on tomcat
Hi, I am using form login and I'd like to send my username/password via https to the server. That can be easily accomplished by setting up the https connection on port 8443 on tomcat. The problem is after logging in, I'd like to switch back to http with the user login state preserved from the https session. But alas, switching from https to http wipes out session info on Netscape (4.7). When my post login jsp pages reference the previously set session login object via http, null is returned. However, if I stay in https, everything is fine. I know bea weblogic has a solution where the server can be set to inhibit the server port number from being included in the cookie sent back to Netscape. This way only the domain name is sent. But I can't find that a similar setting in Tomcat. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Ben Wong
