Re: No Host matches server name localhost error

2005-08-31 Thread Thomas Corte
Hello, Parsons Technical Services wrote: Now as for the issue, I am not sure that it is a bug but just a feature. Unless you can show where it does not meet the servlet specs then it will not be considered a bug. Ok, and since the issue is actually documented, it cannot be called a bug.

No Host matches server name localhost error

2005-08-30 Thread Brian Moseley
i'm using tomcat 5.5.9 with a single webapp deployed with a context path of and a default host named localhost. when i request the webapp's root resource (http://localhost:8080/), i get a 400 error with the message No Host matches server name localhost. as you can see from my very minimal

Re: No Host matches server name localhost error

2005-08-30 Thread Paul Austin
Try renaming the context.xml to ROOT.xml, I normally get the 400 error if it can't find the context for a particular path. For some reason Tomcat tends to ignore the path on the context. Paul On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 09:50 -0700, Brian Moseley wrote: i'm using tomcat 5.5.9 with a single webapp

Re: No Host matches server name localhost error

2005-08-30 Thread Brian Cook
The error your getting is more likely saying that you computer can not resolve localhost as domain name. If so it would have nothing to do with your server config. Try using the loop back IP(127.0.0.1). If this is happening on a windows box you may want to run a check for viruses or

Re: No Host matches server name localhost error

2005-08-30 Thread Parsons Technical Services
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 12:50 PM Subject: No Host matches server name localhost error i'm using tomcat 5.5.9 with a single webapp deployed with a context path of and a default host named localhost. when i request

Re: No Host matches server name localhost error

2005-08-30 Thread Brian Moseley
Parsons Technical Services wrote: Per the 5.5 doc you can't do it that way. You can only specify the path as a blank string when the context element is in the server.xml. http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html Look at the path attribute. aha! man, if only

RE: No Host matches server name localhost error

2005-08-30 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Brian Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: No Host matches server name localhost error thanks for the pointer. after moving my context definition into server.xml Bad move. This is specifically discouraged in 5.5. i wonder what the motivation was for making

RE: No Host matches server name localhost error

2005-08-30 Thread Paul Austin
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 13:25 -0500, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Brian Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: No Host matches server name localhost error thanks for the pointer. after moving my context definition into server.xml Bad move. This is specifically

RE: No Host matches server name localhost error

2005-08-30 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Paul Austin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: No Host matches server name localhost error But the context path is only supported when you put it in the server.xml so you can't deploy the wars to any other path other than the name of the context file so deploying to /apps

Re: No Host matches server name localhost error

2005-08-30 Thread Brian Moseley
Paul Austin wrote: It seems that Tomcat 5.5 discourages you from putting contexts in the server.xml, and that is something that is a good idea as it's easier to manage them when they are outside. But the context path is only supported when you put it in the server.xml so you can't deploy the

Re: No Host matches server name localhost error

2005-08-30 Thread Brian Moseley
Brian Moseley wrote: i don't recall seeing any references to a ROOT.xml. i tried renaming my context xml file to ROOT.xml (within conf/Catalina/localhost of course) but it did not seem to have been processed (requests to / gave that same 400 error). and gosh, what a misleading error message

Re: No Host matches server name localhost error

2005-08-30 Thread Thomas Corte
Hi, Parsons Technical Services wrote: Per the 5.5 doc you can't do it that way. You can only specify the path as a blank string when the context element is in the server.xml. To reiterate: so the only 2 ways to define the *default web app* for the host are either - to define the context

Re: No Host matches server name localhost error

2005-08-30 Thread Parsons Technical Services
somewhere there is someone who doesn't like it. Doug - Original Message - From: Thomas Corte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:28 PM Subject: Re: No Host matches server name localhost error Hi, Parsons Technical