Re: web.xml location
The directory structure is predetermined for web applications. You might want to check out the Servlet spec. Your web.xml must be in the Web-inf directory. --- Jim Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I start tomcat with a different server.xml using the -f command line argument, where does the web.xml file reside? I'm trying to make my installation of tomcat no depend on anything in the $TOMCAT_HOME/conf directory (so all my conf stuff can live in one place, eg. Apache/Cocoon/Tomcat, etc) I can't seem to find a way to set it, nor a way to determine if it's missing ... -- Kumera - a new Open Source Content Management System for small to medium web sites written in Perl and using XML http://www.cyber4.org/kumera/index.html = Wyn Easton [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: web.xml location
At 03:43 AM 10/11/00 -0800, you wrote: The directory structure is predetermined for web applications. You might want to check out the Servlet spec. Your web.xml must be in the Web-inf directory. I didn't mean the web.xml that is stored in the .war file or the WEB-INF directory but the default one that lives in $TOMCAT_HOME/conf. There is an Interceptor that loads this file, from a default location conf/web.xml and it seems that in the server.xml I can specify a new home, but I don't know the XML syntax for the name/attribute pair. -- Kumera - a new Open Source Content Management System for small to medium web sites written in Perl and using XML http://www.cyber4.org/kumera/index.html
RE: web.xml location
Hi Jim, [[ Everybody **PLEASE** specify your tomcat version in your questions ]] I guess you aren't talking tomcat4, because you mention Interceptor. If you are talking tomcat3.2, then there *isn't* a global web.xml file anymore (actually, it still exists in the downloaded code, but is ignored). I use tomcat3.2 currently, and put this in server.xml: ContextManager debug="0" workDir="/home/skitchin/webserver/tomcat/work" showDebugInfo="true" home="/home/skitchin/webserver/tomcat" I put this server.xml in ="/home/skitchin/webserver/tomcat/conf, and use the -f option to get tomcat to read it. I had to specify a full path for workDir (it didn't seem to take it relative to the home attribute) but all else works as expected. For tomcat3.1, I expect that the above would work, and that web.xml would be read from the specified home directory, but haven't tried it myself :-) Cheers, Simon -Original Message- From: Jim Richards [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 1:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: web.xml location At 03:43 AM 10/11/00 -0800, you wrote: The directory structure is predetermined for web applications. You might want to check out the Servlet spec. Your web.xml must be in the Web-inf directory. I didn't mean the web.xml that is stored in the .war file or the WEB-INF directory but the default one that lives in $TOMCAT_HOME/conf. There is an Interceptor that loads this file, from a default location conf/web.xml and it seems that in the server.xml I can specify a new home, but I don't know the XML syntax for the name/attribute pair. -- Kumera - a new Open Source Content Management System for small to medium web sites written in Perl and using XML http://www.cyber4.org/kumera/index.html
RE: web.xml location
[[ Everybody **PLEASE** specify your tomcat version in your questions ]] Sorry, version 3.2b6. If you are talking tomcat3.2, then there *isn't* a global web.xml file anymore (actually, it still exists in the downloaded code, but is ignored). I found that it is loaded in from the ContextInterceptor className="org.apache.tomcat.context.WebXmlReader" / and it looks in the $TOMCAT_HOME/conf directory. If I move home, then other things will break (i.e. no webapps directory) as I use virtual hosts for all the development work that I do. -- Kumera - a new Open Source Content Management System for small to medium web sites written in Perl and using XML http://www.cyber4.org/kumera/index.html
Re: web.xml location
Jim Richards wrote: [[ Everybody **PLEASE** specify your tomcat version in your questions ]] Sorry, version 3.2b6. If you are talking tomcat3.2, then there *isn't* a global web.xml file anymore (actually, it still exists in the downloaded code, but is ignored). I found that it is loaded in from the ContextInterceptor className="org.apache.tomcat.context.WebXmlReader" / and it looks in the $TOMCAT_HOME/conf directory. If I move home, then other things will break (i.e. no webapps directory) as I use virtual hosts for all the development work that I do. The call to the method that reads the "global" defaults -- readDefaultWebXml() -- is currently commented out. I am really hesitant to uncomment it this close to a release, for fear of unintended consequences. However, people who want to download the source and experiment are welcome to try uncommenting this and reporting their success or failure. It is line 104 of the org.apache.tomcat.context.WebXmlReader class. Craig McClanahan
