Re: Tomcat and Servlets - DESPERATE for help
kinda sounds like your sending malformed html to the browser do the view source thing in the browser and see what you're sending it Hi folks, I pray someone can tell me something here. Im writing an application in Servlets using Tomcat Heres my scenario. I display a User Login screen, ID and Password on an HTML form, user enters data, the submit button executes the program to verify the Users information Obvioulsy if its wrong, it redisplays the screen, or correct, it carries on into the application. SO, if the user info is correct, it CALLS another program to build and display the users data, menu, etc.. This all works just fine, EXCEPT.when it builds the new User screen, it is building it BELOW (i.e. same browser page) as the User Login screen. Obviously this User Login screen should be gone, and I should just see the new results Ok, if the User validation process failed (i.e. invalid id or password) my program just redisplays the log in screen, well, same happens, a NEW login screen, gets bulit below the Original log in screen. can ANYONE PLEAE help me here. Does Tomcat need to kill the Servlet session? to know it needs to refresh the Browser? This is killing me here, Im desperate to get this resolved so I can move forward with my app, I thank you all for any help you can give me Have a wonderful day, Merry Christmas Mike - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with Manager application
Hello All, I've recently gotten a new machine and installed linux Fedora Core 1 j2sdk1.4.2_03 jakarta-tomcat-5.0.19 netbeans3.6 I've played around with netbeans and tomcat in the past and have some web apps that I've created and that run fine on an older machine. On the new machine, when I try to use the manager application that comes with tomcat to deploy one of my app, I get this exception. type Exception report message description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request. exception javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception root cause java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/ServletInputStream org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.doPost(HTMLManagerServlet.java:142) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.0.29 logs. I used netbeans to create the simplest app I could and still got the same error. I looked thru the archives on this mailing list and the closest thing I found was something that said that java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError is often caused by having multiple instances of a jar file on the machine. I searched around and found that javax/servlet/ServletInputStream is in tomcat_install_dir/commons/lib/servlet-api.jar, so I searched my machine for it and found two instances. One where it should be for tomcat and another in my home directory where netbeans is installed. This looks ok to me but just on a whim I deleted the netbaens install dir and nothing changed. So now I'm kinda stuck. On my older installation of tomcat everything works great, anybody have a good idea how to track down my problem?? Oh yea, when I start tomcat it echos [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.19/bin/startup.sh Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.19 Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.19 Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.19/temp Using JAVA_HOME: /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2_03 which looks correct to me Ideas??? Oh yea, Oh yea it I just place the war file for my app in the tomcat webapps directory and stop and restart tomcat it deploys and runs fine TIA Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Servlets and debugging
Richard, I'm certainly no expert but I've been playing with this stuff a while and I find the free netbeans IDE to be an excellent environment for learning this stuff. It come with a copy of tomcat built into it so you can debug your servlet from within the IDE. With the click of a buton it will generate a skeleton servlet that does nothing except print hello world and then you can set breakpoints in the code and debug it and watch it execute one line at a time. I don't know how people survive without such a tool. Eclipse is another IDE people think highly of but I'm not familiar with it. Check out netbeans at www.netbeans.org I'd stick with version 3.6 for now good luck Dave After a few years of trying on and off I've finally managed to make a servlet work in Tomcat (4.1). I had to add: servlet servlet-nameStudioSearch/servlet-name servlet-classStudioSearch/servlet-class /servlet servlet-mapping servlet-nameinvoker/servlet-name url-pattern/servlet/*/url-pattern /servlet-mapping to webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml. (No one had ever said before about the servlet-mapping directive.). I'll install it in a better location when its working, I'm just using the root webapp for debugging. So now I need to try and make my servlet work. Obviously there are lots of bugs in the Java code itself but I wonder if anyone could suggest a good way of testing servlet code? ATM, I have to compile the servlet, copy it to the classes directory, restart Tomcat (which takes several minutes) and read the Tomcat logs to find out whats gone wrong! Nightmare! :-o How do people who know what they're doing go about debugging servlets? Thanks in advance, Richard -- Richard Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem with server.xml
Hello All, I'm trying to setup the mod_jk connector between tomcat 5.0.16 and apache 1.3.x on a linux box. I've got the connector compiled and installed in apache and I can point a browser at www.mydomain.com/servlet/foo and I get an error message from tomcat, not apache, saying resource not available,so I believe the connector is sucsefully talking to tomcat. The next step is to create a workers.properties and server.xml file for tomcat. The howto's I'm looking at have sample files, workers.properties looks pretty straight forward but I'm kinda confused about server.xml. Both howto's say to backup the default server.xml and start from scratch, I've pasted their template at the bottom. When I try using their server.xml tomcat won't even start, when I run the startup script tomcat fails without any error message, obviously I need to tweak some stuff. It looks like I should change your_domain to my domain name and docBase to where my application is but these changes don't fix things. Does anybody see what I'm doing wrong?? I've looked in the log files but didn't see anything helpful Thanx Dave Server port=8005 shutdown=SHUTDOWN debug=0 Service name=Tomcat-Apache Connector className=org.apache.ajp.tomcat4.Ajp13Connector address=127.0.0.1 port=8009 minProcessors=5 maxProcessors=75 enableLookups=false acceptCount=10 debug=0/ Engine name=your_engine debug=0 defaultHost=your_domain Logger className=org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger prefix=catalina_log. suffix=.txt timestamp=true/ Host name=your_domain debug=0 unpackWARs=true Context path= docBase=/home/tomcat/your_application debug=0 reloadable=true / /Host /Engine /Service /Server - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem with server.xml
Hello All, I'm trying to setup the mod_jk connector between tomcat 5.0.16 and apache 1.3.x on a linux box. I've got the connector compiled and installed in apache and I can point a browser at www.mydomain.com/servlet/foo and I get an error message from tomcat, not apache, saying resource not available,so I believe the connector is sucsefully talking to tomcat. The next step is to create a workers.properties and server.xml file for tomcat. The howto's I'm looking at have sample files, workers.properties looks pretty straight forward but I'm kinda confused about server.xml. Both howto's say to backup the default server.xml and start from scratch, I've pasted their template at the bottom. When I try using their server.xml tomcat won't even start, when I run the startup script tomcat fails without any error message, obviously I need to tweak some stuff. It looks like I should change your_domain to my domain name and docBase to where my application is but these changes don't fix things. Does anybody see what I'm doing wrong?? I've looked in the log files but didn't see anything helpful Thanx Dave Server port=8005 shutdown=SHUTDOWN debug=0 Service name=Tomcat-Apache Connector className=org.apache.ajp.tomcat4.Ajp13Connector address=127.0.0.1 port=8009 minProcessors=5 maxProcessors=75 enableLookups=false acceptCount=10 debug=0/ Engine name=your_engine debug=0 defaultHost=your_domain Logger className=org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger prefix=catalina_log. suffix=.txt timestamp=true/ Host name=your_domain debug=0 unpackWARs=true Context path= docBase=/home/tomcat/your_application debug=0 reloadable=true / /Host /Engine /Service /Server - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: problem with server.xml
Hi Yoav, Well, I got it working Simply went back to original server.xml and it works with no modification That sure was a lot easier than all the hair pulling I've been going thru :) Thanx Dave Hi, Both howto's say to backup the default server.xml and start from scratch, That's unfortunate, as you can clearly see the howto's are for tomcat4. Class names, attributes, and other elements were changed in tomcat 5. You should take supplied tomcat 5 server.xml and customize it as needed. Yoav Shapira This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem with server.xml
Hello All, I'm trying to setup the mod_jk connector between tomcat 5.0.16 and apache 1.3.x on a linux box. I've got the connector compiled and installed in apache and I can point a browser at www.mydomain.com/servlet/foo and I get an error message from tomcat, not apache, saying resource not available,so I believe the connector is sucsefully talking to tomcat. The next step is to create a workers.properties and server.xml file for tomcat. The howto's I'm looking at have sample files, workers.properties looks pretty straight forward but I'm kinda confused about server.xml. Both howto's say to backup the default server.xml and start from scratch, I've pasted their template at the bottom. When I try using their server.xml tomcat won't even start, when I run the startup script tomcat fails without any error message, obviously I need to tweak some stuff. It looks like I should change your_domain to my domain name and docBase to where my application is but these changes don't fix things. Does anybody see what I'm doing wrong?? I've looked in the log files but didn't see anything helpful Thanx Dave Server port=8005 shutdown=SHUTDOWN debug=0 Service name=Tomcat-Apache Connector className=org.apache.ajp.tomcat4.Ajp13Connector address=127.0.0.1 port=8009 minProcessors=5 maxProcessors=75 enableLookups=false acceptCount=10 debug=0/ Engine name=your_engine debug=0 defaultHost=your_domain Logger className=org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger prefix=catalina_log. suffix=.txt timestamp=true/ Host name=your_domain debug=0 unpackWARs=true Context path= docBase=/home/tomcat/your_application debug=0 reloadable=true / /Host /Engine /Service /Server - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newbie question
Hello All, Hope someone can help me out. I developed a servlet using Netbeans and when I tried to deploy it I had problem In an attempt to debug, I went back to Netbeans and created the simplest servlet I could, it just prints out some text. Works fine in development environment. Netbeans has option to build test.war file for me, did that. put test.war file in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps restarted tomcat I can see new directory test with WEB-INF/classes/test.class in it point browser an http:/www.xxx.yyy.zzz:8080/test and I get directory listing with nothing in it if I make junk.html file in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/test. I can load it like $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/test/junk.html if I just give it http:/www.xxx.yyy.zzz:8080/test I see directory listing with junk.html shouldn't I see WEB-INF in directory listing?? I've messed with Netbeans/Tomcat in the past and I thought all I had to do was make war file dump it in webapps dir and restart Tomcat seems like a path problem to the servlet linux 2.4.18 tomcat 5.0.16 Anybody see what I'm missing Thanx Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Newbie question
I figured it out :-) the path to the servlet name foo is http:/www.xxx.yyy.zzz:8080/test/servlet/foo -Original Message- From: Dave Robbins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:51 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Newbie question Hello All, Hope someone can help me out. I developed a servlet using Netbeans and when I tried to deploy it I had problem In an attempt to debug, I went back to Netbeans and created the simplest servlet I could, it just prints out some text. Works fine in development environment. Netbeans has option to build test.war file for me, did that. put test.war file in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps restarted tomcat I can see new directory test with WEB-INF/classes/test.class in it point browser an http:/www.xxx.yyy.zzz:8080/test and I get directory listing with nothing in it if I make junk.html file in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/test. I can load it like $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/test/junk.html if I just give it http:/www.xxx.yyy.zzz:8080/test I see directory listing with junk.html shouldn't I see WEB-INF in directory listing?? I've messed with Netbeans/Tomcat in the past and I thought all I had to do was make war file dump it in webapps dir and restart Tomcat seems like a path problem to the servlet linux 2.4.18 tomcat 5.0.16 Anybody see what I'm missing Thanx Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
servletcontext/path problem
Hi Folks,
I've posted this before and still haven't figured it out.
Maybe you can help this time
I'm using Forte 4.0 and trying to mess with Model 2 jsp/servlet
architecture
I've got a file index.jsp in my top level directory
index.jsp contains a link to a servlet myServlet
the myServlet servlet is in WEB-INF/classes in myPackage
the function in the servlet that handles the request executes this
code
javax.servlet.ServletContext sc;
javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher rd;
try
{
sc = getServletContext();
rd = sc.getRequestDispatcher(/foo.jsp);
rd.forward(request, response);
}
catch(Throwable theException)
{
}
foo.jsp is in the top level directory with index.jsp and this all
works correctly, when you click the link in index.jsp, foo.jsp is
displayed.
Now I put a link in foo.jsp to index.jsp
a href'index.jspBack to Topa
when I mouse over this link the address it points at is
http://localhost:8081/servlet/index.jsp
which is wrong.
the address displayed in the location window at this point says
http://localhost:8081/servlet/myPackage.myServlet
The docs from Sun for RequestDispatcher.forward() say
For a RequestDispatcher obtained via getRequestDispatcher(), the
ServletRequest object has its path elements and parameters adjusted to
match the path of the target resource.
this sounds to me like when control was passed to foo.jsp, the path
should have been set back to http://localhost:8081/
I kinda think the problem has something to do with a servlet mapping entry
in web.xml, so far this is all being handled by Forte. When I try to read
documentation on this stuff it's a tiny bit obtuse. Can somebody help me
out here.
The .war file is tiny so I attached it
Dave
myProject.war
Description: Zip compressed data
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relative path/context problem
Hello All, I'm seeing some really odd behaviour, I hope someone can tell me what i'm doing wrong. I've written some jsp/servlet code with Forte 4.0, created a war file and deployed it on Tomcat 4.0.4. ( I deployed it by putting the war file in the webapps dir and restarting Tomcat) The war file was my_stuff.war so the url is http://localhost:8080/my_stuff/index.jsp That works fine. As I started developing a little code I got to a point I wanted a link back to the entry of the site, I thought a href=/index.jspBack to Top/a would do the job. But this link pointed to http://localhost:8080/my_stuff/servlet/index.jsp I was confused so to simplify things I went back to index.jsp and put a link to itself in the file. When you mouse over the link, the address it point to is http://localhost:8080/index.jsp Shouldn't Tomcat be prepending http://localhost:8080/my_stuff onto any link I specify like this a href=/somefile.jspMy Link/a I'm playing around with what's called a model 2 architecture where a jsp page calls a servlet which does some data processing and then forwards the request to another jsp page and I'm not having any trouble with path's when I forward the request, just with links in the jsp pages. what's really maddening is that in playing around with this I've seen it work correctly and seen it fail. Obviously I'm doing something boneheaded, any ideas?? Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: relative path/context problem
I have 1 servlet name EntryBean in a package called phonebook should web.xml have entries for jsp pages? here's the whole file ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? !DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC -//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd; web-app servlet servlet-nameEntryBean/servlet-name servlet-classphonebook.EntryBean/servlet-class /servlet servlet-mapping servlet-nameEntryBean/servlet-name url-pattern/servlet/phonebook.EntryBean/url-pattern /servlet-mapping session-config session-timeout 30 /session-timeout /session-config welcome-file-list welcome-file index.jsp /welcome-file welcome-file index.html /welcome-file welcome-file index.htm /welcome-file /welcome-file-list /web-app What servlet mapping(s) do you have setup in web.xml? Dave Robbins wrote: Hello All, I'm seeing some really odd behaviour, I hope someone can tell me what i'm doing wrong. I've written some jsp/servlet code with Forte 4.0, created a war file and deployed it on Tomcat 4.0.4. ( I deployed it by putting the war file in the webapps dir and restarting Tomcat) The war file was my_stuff.war so the url is http://localhost:8080/my_stuff/index.jsp That works fine. As I started developing a little code I got to a point I wanted a link back to the entry of the site, I thought a href=/index.jspBack to Top/a would do the job. But this link pointed to http://localhost:8080/my_stuff/servlet/index.jsp I was confused so to simplify things I went back to index.jsp and put a link to itself in the file. When you mouse over the link, the address it point to is http://localhost:8080/index.jsp Shouldn't Tomcat be prepending http://localhost:8080/my_stuff onto any link I specify like this a href=/somefile.jspMy Link/a I'm playing around with what's called a model 2 architecture where a jsp page calls a servlet which does some data processing and then forwards the request to another jsp page and I'm not having any trouble with path's when I forward the request, just with links in the jsp pages. what's really maddening is that in playing around with this I've seen it work correctly and seen it fail. Obviously I'm doing something boneheaded, any ideas?? Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: relative path/context problem
you sir, are incredibly smart Thanks I think it will work if you take out the /. Like this: a href=index.jspBack to Top/a Tell me. Bye, Mauro On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Dave Robbins wrote: Hello All, I'm seeing some really odd behaviour, I hope someone can tell me what i'm doing wrong. I've written some jsp/servlet code with Forte 4.0, created a war file and deployed it on Tomcat 4.0.4. ( I deployed it by putting the war file in the webapps dir and restarting Tomcat) The war file was my_stuff.war so the url is http://localhost:8080/my_stuff/index.jsp That works fine. As I started developing a little code I got to a point I wanted a link back to the entry of the site, I thought a href=/index.jspBack to Top/a would do the job. But this link pointed to http://localhost:8080/my_stuff/servlet/index.jsp I was confused so to simplify things I went back to index.jsp and put a link to itself in the file. When you mouse over the link, the address it point to is http://localhost:8080/index.jsp Shouldn't Tomcat be prepending http://localhost:8080/my_stuff onto any link I specify like this a href=/somefile.jspMy Link/a I'm playing around with what's called a model 2 architecture where a jsp page calls a servlet which does some data processing and then forwards the request to another jsp page and I'm not having any trouble with path's when I forward the request, just with links in the jsp pages. what's really maddening is that in playing around with this I've seen it work correctly and seen it fail. Obviously I'm doing something boneheaded, any ideas?? Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ing.Mauro Daniel Ardolino Departamento de Desarrollo y Servicios Altersoft Billinghurst 1599 - Piso 9 C1425DTE - Capital Federal Tel/Fax: 4821-3376 / 4822-8759 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.altersoft.com.ar -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
war file deployment problem
Hello All, kindof a newbie here so be gentle I wrote a little dummy app with Forte 4.0 that consists of a jsp page with a link that calls a servlet which does a database lookup and spews out some data. It works fine with the built in copy of Tomcat that comes with Forte. I build a war file and try to deploy it on another machine with Tomcat 4.0.4 on it. I put my file dummy.war in the $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/dummy dir and use this command from a browser http://localhost:8080/manager/install? path=/dummywar=jar:file:$CATALINA_HOME/webapps/dummy/dummy.war!/ now the command http://localhost:8080/manager/install tells me that my app is running, but when I try to access it with http://localhost/dummy or http://localhost/dummy/index.jsp it says the resource is not available. I kinda thought Tomcat could access the war file in it's bundled state but after reading the docs I got the impression the manager app was gonna expand it, is that true? In my case the file wasn't expanded. After some head scratching I figured I'd manually expand the war file in the $CATALINA_HOME/ROOT dir. After doing that and restarting Tomcat everything works fine with http://localhost/index.jsp. So, let me ask a few questions 1) What does the manager app do does it modify $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml should it expand the war file 2)If I'm gonna deploy multiple apps, what's the typical dir structure $CATALINA_HOME/ROOT/app1, $CATALINA_HOME/ROOT/app2, etc could i deploy an app outside the Tomcat dir structure (ie /home/mydir) 3)Is this the correct flow of things Tomcat starts up and reads $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml and now knows about the apps that are installed and what path they're mapped to. when a client tries to access an app, Tomcat goes and looks in the jar file and reads web.xml to discover what all is in the war file. Within the war file any static content goes in the WEB-INF dir, class files go in WEB- INF/classes and .jar files goe in WEB-INF/lib hep me, hep me Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: war file deployment problem
What? Me make it more complicated than it is? surely you jest! I got it to work by putting the war file in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT I still don't know what I'm doing but I'll be able to figure it out now that I've got something working. Thanks Dave Hi Dave. I think you're making this more complicated than it needs to be. Two things: 1. Try putting your war file in the $CATALINA_HOME/webapps directory rather than $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/dummy. If your tomcat installation is set up to unpack war files (this is the default) it will create the dummy webapp directory for you and unpack everything into that directory when you restart tomcat. 2. The URL to use to access your webapp will also have to use port 8080. Unless you've modified your server.xml file and you're running tomcat as root that is. This set up will work with the out of the box tomcat installation. No need to modify server.xml at all. You should then be able to access your app like this: http://localhost:8080/dummy See if that simplifies things. Regards, Pete On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:51:26 -0400 (EDT) Dave Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, kindof a newbie here so be gentle I wrote a little dummy app with Forte 4.0 that consists of a jsp page with a link that calls a servlet which does a database lookup and spews out some data. It works fine with the built in copy of Tomcat that comes with Forte. I build a war file and try to deploy it on another machine with Tomcat 4.0.4 on it. I put my file dummy.war in the $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/dummy dir and use this command from a browser http://localhost:8080/manager/install? path=/dummywar=jar:file:$CATALINA_HOME/webapps/dummy/dummy.war!/ now the command http://localhost:8080/manager/install tells me that my app is running, but when I try to access it with http://localhost/dummy or http://localhost/dummy/index.jsp it says the resource is not available. I kinda thought Tomcat could access the war file in it's bundled state but after reading the docs I got the impression the manager app was gonna expand it, is that true? In my case the file wasn't expanded. After some head scratching I figured I'd manually expand the war file in the $CATALINA_HOME/ROOT dir. After doing that and restarting Tomcat everything works fine with http://localhost/index.jsp. So, let me ask a few questions 1) What does the manager app do does it modify $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml should it expand the war file 2)If I'm gonna deploy multiple apps, what's the typical dir structure $CATALINA_HOME/ROOT/app1, $CATALINA_HOME/ROOT/app2, etc could i deploy an app outside the Tomcat dir structure (ie /home/mydir) 3)Is this the correct flow of things Tomcat starts up and reads $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml and now knows about the apps that are installed and what path they're mapped to. when a client tries to access an app, Tomcat goes and looks in the jar file and reads web.xml to discover what all is in the war file. Within the war file any static content goes in the WEB-INF dir, class files go in WEB- INF/classes and .jar files goe in WEB-INF/lib hep me, hep me Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Peter Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...the increased productivity fostered by a friendly environment and quality tools is essential to meet ever increasing demands for software. -- M. D. McIlroy, E. N. Pinson and B. A. Tague -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: war file deployment problem
Thanks a million for the quick feedback I've got things working now Once you see how this works it's pretty easy, but I must say getting here was kinda tuff maybe when I get a little further along I'll make up a little tutorial titled how to tie your shoes before you learn to walk before you learn to run Thanx Again Dave You are confusing Tomcat. If you are going to dynamically deploy your webapp, don't have the .war file sitting in $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps. Have it somewhere else. Everything in $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps is automatically deployed and, yes, it is expanded if you *don't* have a Context entry defined for that webapp. when you install like you are, there is already a webapp defined for the path you are specifying. Now you install another webapp under the same name. I don't know how Tomcat handles this situation, but it looks as if it hoses the webapp entry. Make sure to name your webapps uniquely and don't put any .war files or expanded directories that you plan on dynamically installing through the manager in Tomcat's default auto-deploy directory (webapps). Jake Quoting Dave Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello All, kindof a newbie here so be gentle I wrote a little dummy app with Forte 4.0 that consists of a jsp page with a link that calls a servlet which does a database lookup and spews out some data. It works fine with the built in copy of Tomcat that comes with Forte. I build a war file and try to deploy it on another machine with Tomcat 4.0.4 on it. I put my file dummy.war in the $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/dummy dir and use this command from a browser http://localhost:8080/manager/install? path=/dummywar=jar:file:$CATALINA_HOME/webapps/dummy/dummy.war!/ now the command http://localhost:8080/manager/install tells me that my app is running, but when I try to access it with http://localhost/dummy or http://localhost/dummy/index.jsp it says the resource is not available. I kinda thought Tomcat could access the war file in it's bundled state but after reading the docs I got the impression the manager app was gonna expand it, is that true? In my case the file wasn't expanded. After some head scratching I figured I'd manually expand the war file in the $CATALINA_HOME/ROOT dir. After doing that and restarting Tomcat everything works fine with http://localhost/index.jsp. So, let me ask a few questions 1) What does the manager app do does it modify $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml should it expand the war file 2)If I'm gonna deploy multiple apps, what's the typical dir structure $CATALINA_HOME/ROOT/app1, $CATALINA_HOME/ROOT/app2, etc could i deploy an app outside the Tomcat dir structure (ie /home/mydir) 3)Is this the correct flow of things Tomcat starts up and reads $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml and now knows about the apps that are installed and what path they're mapped to. when a client tries to access an app, Tomcat goes and looks in the jar file and reads web.xml to discover what all is in the war file. Within the war file any static content goes in the WEB-INF dir, class files go in WEB- INF/classes and .jar files goe in WEB-INF/lib hep me, hep me Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
