Where to put context.xml?
This is probably an obvious question to most but I am new with tomcat 5.5 so I am still trying to figure things out. I want to create a web project with the document base in /home/tomcat/applications as opposed to the normal webapps folder. This is what I have in my server.xml: Server port=8005 shutdown=SHUTDOWN GlobalNamingResources !-- Used by Manager webapp -- Resource name=UserDatabase auth=Container type=org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase description=User database that can be updated and saved factory=org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory pathname=conf/tomcat-users.xml / /GlobalNamingResources Service name=Catalina Connector port=8081 / Engine name=Catalina defaultHost=localhost !-- Realm className=org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm resourceName=UserDatabase / -- Host name=localhost debug=0 Context path= docBase=/home/tomcat/applications/ debug=0 reloadable=true / /Host /Engine /Service /Server It works when I point my browser to http://www.myhost.com:8081/ and it shows a customized welcome page from my index.jsp. However, as I understand it, Context should now be in its own xml file. I extracted the Context content and placed it in context.xml. I placed context.xml in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost, restarted tomcat but now the browser shows nothing. I also tried placing it in the conf/ folder but that doesn't work either. Where does the file go? Thanks for any help in advance. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Where to put context.xml?
Nearly. Rename your file ROOT.xml and a path of /ROOT and you're away. The other alternative is create in your web application folder META-INF/context.xml Allistair -Original Message- From: Michael Lai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 September 2005 10:07 To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Where to put context.xml? This is probably an obvious question to most but I am new with tomcat 5.5 so I am still trying to figure things out. I want to create a web project with the document base in /home/tomcat/applications as opposed to the normal webapps folder. This is what I have in my server.xml: Server port=8005 shutdown=SHUTDOWN GlobalNamingResources !-- Used by Manager webapp -- Resource name=UserDatabase auth=Container type=org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase description=User database that can be updated and saved factory=org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory pathname=conf/tomcat-users.xml / /GlobalNamingResources Service name=Catalina Connector port=8081 / Engine name=Catalina defaultHost=localhost !-- Realm className=org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm resourceName=UserDatabase / -- Host name=localhost debug=0 Context path= docBase=/home/tomcat/applications/ debug=0 reloadable=true / /Host /Engine /Service /Server It works when I point my browser to http://www.myhost.com:8081/ and it shows a customized welcome page from my index.jsp. However, as I understand it, Context should now be in its own xml file. I extracted the Context content and placed it in context.xml. I placed context.xml in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost, restarted tomcat but now the browser shows nothing. I also tried placing it in the conf/ folder but that doesn't work either. Where does the file go? Thanks for any help in advance. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FONT SIZE=1 FACE=VERDANA,ARIAL COLOR=BLUE --- QAS Ltd. Registered in England: No 2582055 Registered in Australia: No 082 851 474 --- /FONT FONT SIZE=1 FACE=VERDANA,ARIAL COLOR=BLACK Disclaimer: The information contained within this e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. This email is intended solely for the named recipient only; if you are not authorised you must not disclose, copy, distribute, or retain this message or any part of it. If you have received this message in error please contact the sender at once so that we may take the appropriate action and avoid troubling you further. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. QAS Limited has the right lawfully to record, monitor and inspect messages between its employees and any third party. Your messages shall be subject to such lawful supervision as QAS Limited deems to be necessary in order to protect its information, its interests and its reputation. Whilst all efforts are made to safeguard Inbound and Outbound emails, QAS Limited cannot guarantee that attachments are virus free or compatible with your systems and does not accept any liability in respect of viruses or computer problems experienced. /FONT - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where to put context.xml?
Allistair Crossley wrote: Nearly. Rename your file ROOT.xml and a path of /ROOT and you're away. The other alternative is create in your web application folder META-INF/context.xml Allistair Thank you for your prompt replay, Allistair. I choosed the second option and created the META folder. So I now have: /home/tomcat/applications/META-INF/context.xml And my context.xml shows: Context path= docBase=/home/tomcat/applications/ debug=0 reloadable=true /Context I restarted tomcat but with the same effect. Is there some other configuration that I have to modify to inform tomcat that I have a project in this folder? Michael. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Where to put context.xml?
Hi, The docBase is just the folder where your web applications are located. You need to have a folder in applications for your web application. For the empty path application this is /ROOT. Thus Context path=/ROOT docBase=/home/tomcat/applications/ debug=0 reloadable=true /Context Means a folder at /home/tomcat/applications/ROOT/META-INF/context.xml applications -Original Message- From: Michael Lai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 September 2005 10:21 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Where to put context.xml? Allistair Crossley wrote: Nearly. Rename your file ROOT.xml and a path of /ROOT and you're away. The other alternative is create in your web application folder META-INF/context.xml Allistair Thank you for your prompt replay, Allistair. I choosed the second option and created the META folder. So I now have: /home/tomcat/applications/META-INF/context.xml And my context.xml shows: Context path= docBase=/home/tomcat/applications/ debug=0 reloadable=true /Context I restarted tomcat but with the same effect. Is there some other configuration that I have to modify to inform tomcat that I have a project in this folder? Michael. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FONT SIZE=1 FACE=VERDANA,ARIAL COLOR=BLUE --- QAS Ltd. Registered in England: No 2582055 Registered in Australia: No 082 851 474 --- /FONT FONT SIZE=1 FACE=VERDANA,ARIAL COLOR=BLACK Disclaimer: The information contained within this e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. This email is intended solely for the named recipient only; if you are not authorised you must not disclose, copy, distribute, or retain this message or any part of it. If you have received this message in error please contact the sender at once so that we may take the appropriate action and avoid troubling you further. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. QAS Limited has the right lawfully to record, monitor and inspect messages between its employees and any third party. Your messages shall be subject to such lawful supervision as QAS Limited deems to be necessary in order to protect its information, its interests and its reputation. Whilst all efforts are made to safeguard Inbound and Outbound emails, QAS Limited cannot guarantee that attachments are virus free or compatible with your systems and does not accept any liability in respect of viruses or computer problems experienced. /FONT - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Where to put context.xml?
From: Allistair Crossley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Where to put context.xml? Context path=/ROOT docBase=/home/tomcat/applications/ debug=0 reloadable=true /Context To again quote from the Tomcat doc for the path attribute of the Context element: The value of this field must not be set except when statically defining a Context in server.xml, as it will be infered [sic] from the filenames used for either the .xml context file or the docBase. Also note that placing Context tags is server.xml is strongly discouraged. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Where to put context.xml?
Hi, Thanks. I am pretty sure that earlier 5.5 implementations needed /ROOT specified for the older 5.0 empty path. Looks like it's either changed back to 5.0's method or I read something incorrectly, Thanks in either case, Allistair. -Original Message- From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 September 2005 14:25 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Where to put context.xml? From: Allistair Crossley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Where to put context.xml? Context path=/ROOT docBase=/home/tomcat/applications/ debug=0 reloadable=true /Context To again quote from the Tomcat doc for the path attribute of the Context element: The value of this field must not be set except when statically defining a Context in server.xml, as it will be infered [sic] from the filenames used for either the .xml context file or the docBase. Also note that placing Context tags is server.xml is strongly discouraged. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FONT SIZE=1 FACE=VERDANA,ARIAL COLOR=BLUE --- QAS Ltd. Registered in England: No 2582055 Registered in Australia: No 082 851 474 --- /FONT FONT SIZE=1 FACE=VERDANA,ARIAL COLOR=BLACK Disclaimer: The information contained within this e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. This email is intended solely for the named recipient only; if you are not authorised you must not disclose, copy, distribute, or retain this message or any part of it. If you have received this message in error please contact the sender at once so that we may take the appropriate action and avoid troubling you further. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. QAS Limited has the right lawfully to record, monitor and inspect messages between its employees and any third party. Your messages shall be subject to such lawful supervision as QAS Limited deems to be necessary in order to protect its information, its interests and its reputation. Whilst all efforts are made to safeguard Inbound and Outbound emails, QAS Limited cannot guarantee that attachments are virus free or compatible with your systems and does not accept any liability in respect of viruses or computer problems experienced. /FONT - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where to put context.xml?
Allistair Crossley wrote: Hi, The docBase is just the folder where your web applications are located. You need to have a folder in applications for your web application. For the empty path application this is /ROOT. Thus Context path=/ROOT docBase=/home/tomcat/applications/ debug=0 reloadable=true /Context Means a folder at /home/tomcat/applications/ROOT/META-INF/context.xml Thanks, it works now. I used your first method instead. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where to put context.xml?
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: To again quote from the Tomcat doc for the path attribute of the Context element: The value of this field must not be set except when statically defining a Context in server.xml, as it will be infered [sic] from the filenames used for either the .xml context file or the docBase. Also note that placing Context tags is server.xml is strongly discouraged. OK, I took out /ROOT from the path field and it still works. But the context file must still be named ROOT.xml. The application fails to work with any other filename. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
