Re: [Tomcat Documentation Redactors To Hire] - WAS: TOMCAT SUCKS

[Tim Stoop]

Carlos Ferreira wrote:
> 
> i could help with translations: french, german, portuguese

And I with the Dutch version. I'd also be willing to write, but I'm
quite new with Tomcat and since I started with JServ a year and a half
ago, Tomcat isn't very transparant for me, I'm afraid...

Re: Problem with Postgresql JDBC driver

[Tim Stoop]

Ryszard Lach wrote:
> 
> and I still receive an error (included at bottom of the message) while calling
> Class.forName("postgresql.Driver") in a .jsp file located in .../webapp/my_app
> directory.

Try not using the DriverManager, like so:

Driver drv = org.postgresql.Driver;
Connection conn = drv.connect("jdbc:postgresql:localhost", "username",
"password");

Worked for me (although you should look for the exact connect-method,
I'm not very sure about this one).

Kind regards,
Tim Stoop

Re: accessing servlets directly

[Tim Stoop]

Jim Cheesman wrote:
> To be honest, no idea ;) I haven't used JServ so I've no idea how its
> repositories worked...  I don't suppose that building a redirecting servlet
> would be that difficult - add a parameter to a cgi style call, and build
> the servlet URL from that. Then call
> getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher(myURL).forward(request, response);

That would be an idea :) But I found something that could help me,
although I can't find documentation on it anywhere...

When I look at tomcat-apache.conf, I find this line:
ApJServMount /servlet /ROOT
ROOT is a directory with a normal structure (WEB-INF and the like). Now,
when I want to access a servlet that's located in
$TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes, I can just enter
http://www.myserver.com/servlet/. That works great. No
need for /servlet/servlet/.

But other Contexts do need that extra "/servlet"-directory, even though
I tell them (i.e.)
ApJServMount /servlets /servlets
Still I need to access the servlets in this Context at
http://www.myserver.com/servlets/servlet/.

The context is made like this:



Now, why can't I access the servlets direct from /servlets, when I *can*
do that with the /ROOT context?

Does that clarify my question a bit more? Seeing ROOT, I'd say it must
be possible, but what's the correct config?

Kind regards,
Tim Stoop

Re: accessing servlets directly

[Tim Stoop]

Jim Cheesman wrote:
> And a servlet-mapping entry in the webapp web.xml file:
> (For example)
<...> 
> Change the url-pattern if you want - that's what you'll be typing
> in/linking to.

Ok, but that should be done for every single Servlet? I want JServ-style
"repositories", where I can dump my work and try it directly... Or will
this solution also work with a wilcard?

Kind regards,
Tim Stoop

accessing servlets directly

[Tim Stoop]

Hi people,

Now, when I want to access a servlet, I have to point to
http://www.myserver.com/servlets/servlet/. Is it
possible to mount the servlets directly to
http://www.myserver.com/servlets/? How can I do this?

Kind regards,
Tim Stoop

Servlet -> PHP

[Tim Stoop]

Hi there,

We are experimenting with our server a little and I was wondering how I
could send output from a Servlet to a PHP-handler? Is that even
possible? Can someone show me some sample code?

Thanks in advance,

Kind regards,
Tim Stoop

JServ - Tomcat migration

[Tim Stoop]

Hi people,

I'm migrating from JServ to Tomcat. I've been using JServ for a year and
a half now and like the way it's configurable. Now when I open the
server.xml or web.xml files, I don't understand them. Is there somewhere
some documentation about how I can exactly migrate? I used to have
repositories like /servlet and /admin-servlet (the latter locked up with
a  in Apache), the first found all it's servlets in
/var/servlet and the latter in /var/admin-servlet. How can I achieve the
same with Tomcat? The documentation on the site is very obscure in this
:(

Kind regards,
Tim Stoop