Re: Website downloading old file

2005-01-18 Thread Paul Taylor
file. Some systems flush the cache at an interval and some do it on file age. Doug - Original Message - From: Paul Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 2:30 PM Subject: Re: Website downloading old file Umm inconclusive

Website downloading old file

2005-01-17 Thread Paul Taylor
Puzzled. I have a Tomcat 5 application, associated with it a file that can be downloaded from the website, which is in the root directory of the context. (So if the context is called myapp the file is in myapp). Everything was fine but then I realised that there was a problem with the file so

Re: Website downloading old file

2005-01-17 Thread Paul Taylor
a restart of Tomcat after deleting the file? I remember something on the list awhile back similar to this. Doug - Original Message - From: Paul Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 7:42 AM Subject: Website downloading old file

Re: Website downloading old file

2005-01-17 Thread Paul Taylor
: Paul Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 7:42 AM Subject: Website downloading old file Puzzled. I have a Tomcat 5 application, associated with it a file that can be downloaded from the website, which is in the root directory of the context

Re: Website downloading old file

2005-01-17 Thread Paul Taylor
larger file which no longer exists ! Paul Taylor wrote: Can you expand on this please, btw if I change any part of the web application itself such as a jsp the results are imediate. Two ther bits of info which maybe relevent. 1. The host is based in Canada and hence has time set to Candian time

Re: Website downloading old file

2005-01-17 Thread Paul Taylor
/file.txt?bogus=var See if the unique URL gets you the right file. On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 12:43, Paul Taylor wrote: Can you expand on this please, btw if I change any part of the web application itself such as a jsp the results are imediate. Two ther bits of info which maybe relevent. 1. The host

Re: Website downloading old file

2005-01-17 Thread Paul Taylor
server may have a list of extensions that don't get cached. This would explain why your dynamic JSPs are working but the static files are being cached. On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 13:47, Paul Taylor wrote: OK I think you are onto something here, the original file was called file.bin, new file replacing

Re: Deploying an application with its own xml file

2005-01-14 Thread Paul Taylor
In what way, do you mean path seperator or something else ? Within my context.xml im using forward slash (UNIX notation) for both and its the Windows one that is working Phillip Qin wrote: Windows and linux use different url. -Original Message- From: Paul Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Deploying an application with its own xml file

2005-01-13 Thread Paul Taylor
Ok, it is working on my test (Windows) environment. But with same war deploying it to my Live environment(Linux) results in it creating myapp.xml as a directory rather than a file ! Ive doubled checked this and the behaviour is constant, anyone ever sdeen this? Paul Taylor wrote: Thanks now

Re: Multiple domain names to a single site

2005-01-13 Thread Paul Taylor
Still struggling perhaps I need to buy a book but Ive had a tentaive look at your options Parsons Technical Services wrote: Does the dnsmanager have a choice for redirection of an URL? It has lots of choices, you can change the dn server, and can use their own dnsmanager to chanage various

Deploying an application with its own xml file

2005-01-12 Thread Paul Taylor
I have an application myapp.war and a corresponding xml file myapp.xml. Previously I was copying myapp.xml into tomcat/conf/catalina/localhost and manually unpacking my war. Now I realised I can put the war into tomcat/webapps and it will automatically deploy, but I then have to shutdown server

Re: Deploying an application with its own xml file

2005-01-12 Thread Paul Taylor
Thanks now working I had previously found the bit about META-INF but called the file myapp.xml not context.xml Phillip Qin wrote: Sotre your context.xml into META-INF. Pack your webapp as war. Then let catalina-ant task or Tomcat Manager to deploy your war. -Original Message- From: Paul

Multiple domain names to a single site

2005-01-11 Thread Paul Taylor
I have three domains mycompany.com mycompany.net myapp.com I have setup a website with a hosting provider using Tomcat 5 which contains the ROOT application and myapp application so currently if user goes to http://mycompany.host/ they will go to ROOT application and if they go to

Re: Multiple domain names to a single site

2005-01-11 Thread Paul Taylor
Could anyone get me started on this please ? Paul Taylor wrote: I have three domains mycompany.com mycompany.net myapp.com I have setup a website with a hosting provider using Tomcat 5 which contains the ROOT application and myapp application so currently if user goes to http://mycompany.host

Re: Multiple domain names to a single site

2005-01-11 Thread Paul Taylor
Parsons Technical Services wrote: You will be working with the host entries in the server.xmlFrom how I read this you want mycompany..com and .net pointing at the same app. You can do this either at the dns level or in the host entry with an alias. As for master slave the master will be the

Re: Please recommend a Low Cost Tomcat Hosting platform

2005-01-10 Thread Paul Taylor
and so I implemented the commons database pooling and use log4j to do my logging. Sorry it wasn't so clear for you Original Message Follows From: Paul Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark Benussi [EMAIL PROTECTED],Tomcat Users List tomcat-user

Preventing directory listings in WebApplication

2005-01-10 Thread Paul Taylor
Hi How exactly do I stop the user going into directory containing jsps and listing all the jsps within it as a directory listing. I dont mind them specifying a particular jsp and going straight to that but I would / to map to the default page for the particular some section. i.e myapp/section1

Re: Preventing directory listings in WebApplication

2005-01-10 Thread Paul Taylor
-file 4308 welcome-fileindex.jsp/welcome-file 4308 welcome-filestart.jsp/welcome-file - 4309/welcome-file-list 4310 !-- On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 11:03, Paul Taylor wrote: Hi Are these exclusive options. I can disable the listings but cant get the default pages

Re: how to deploy using war file on tomcat 5

2005-01-07 Thread Paul Taylor
For this to work if you havent already you must have also configured your Tomcat Manager Application with a valid user and password if you havent already.Acess to documentation here http://localhost:8080/manager/manager-howto.html Mike Fowler wrote: Sandeep - The ant deploy task you need is

Re: Please recommend a Low Cost Tomcat Hosting platform

2005-01-07 Thread Paul Taylor
your account has external access to retrieve the DTD's (They don't do this by default). Also if you need SSL ask them now as they need to do some specifics with your host IP address. Cheers, Mark Benussi Original Message Follows From: Paul Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

Please recommend a Low Cost Tomcat Hosting platform

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Taylor
Hi I have a Tomcat 4 Application ready to deploy as a WAR. It uses database pooling to connect to a MYSQL database. I recently selected a Tomcat hosting platform to deploy my application but the deployment is non -standard you have to copy various parts of the WAR to different locations which

Re: Please recommend a Low Cost Tomcat Hosting platform

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Taylor
Thanks, it loooks quite good but have you actually used it ? Guy Katz wrote: you have http://www.webconexion.net based @ the uk. -Original Message- From: Paul Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 4:32 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Please recommend a Low Cost

Re: Please recommend a Low Cost Tomcat Hosting platform

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Taylor
is good, they are a small company and from that point of view you always get a quick response. Original Message Follows From: Paul Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Please recommend a Low Cost Tomcat Hosting

Re: Please recommend a Low Cost Tomcat Hosting platform

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Taylor
unsure of how important Java Hosting is, also based in US. Paul Taylor wrote: Hi I have a Tomcat 4 Application ready to deploy as a WAR. It uses database pooling to connect to a MYSQL database. I recently selected a Tomcat hosting platform to deploy my application but the deployment is non

Re: Please recommend a Low Cost Tomcat Hosting platform

2005-01-04 Thread Paul Taylor
Yeah, they have been mentioned before but I sent them an email a couple of weeks ago regarding some questions about hosting and they never got back to me. Guy Katz wrote: www.javaservlethosting.com is also considered one of the best out there. -Original Message- From: Paul Taylor

Re: Deploying a war in TC4

2004-11-12 Thread Paul Taylor
-on-startup /servlet servlet-mapping servlet-nameController/servlet-name url-pattern/controller/url-pattern /servlet-mapping /web-app Is there anything I can do here which might make a difference. Paul Taylor wrote: Thanks I use a File() constructor because the same class is used

Re: Use of Referer header

2004-11-11 Thread Paul Taylor
Ok, I misunderstood what it did. It seems to work ok on both IE and Firefox always returning a value when navigating from a page but being null when accessing the page directly because there is no referer. So Ive just coded my page like to only show a back link when actually come from another

Re: Preventing users getting accessing to directory contents in Tomcat

2004-11-10 Thread Paul Taylor
Shapira http://www.yoavshapira.com -Original Message- From: Paul Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 7:00 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Preventing users getting accessing to directory contents in Tomcat Under tomcat 4 my jsps are held in a subdiir

Re: Preventing users getting accessing to directory contents in Tomcat

2004-11-10 Thread Paul Taylor
. Then use a servlet to validate the incoming parameters and then forward to the JSP. -Tim Paul Taylor wrote: Thanks works a treat Is there a similar way to prevent the user typing in the url of a partciuar jsp or image and stop them being taken it. Ive looked at security-constraints but this seems

How do default to get website to go straight to my webapp ?

2004-11-10 Thread Paul Taylor
How do you default to get website to go straight to my webapp ? I have a web application called testapp and in web.xml I have welcome-file-list welcome-filejsp/overview.jsp/welcome-file /welcome-file-list Going to http://localhost:8080/testapp takes the user to

Re: How do default to get website to go straight to my webapp ?

2004-11-10 Thread Paul Taylor
Thanks for the quick prompt reply. Is this normal to do, it feels like I am messing up the standard config and would the end result be that the url would display as localhost/overview.jsp rather than localhost/testapp/overview.jsp Would it be better to replace ROOT app with a mini app. For

Re: How do default to get website to go straight to my webapp ?

2004-11-10 Thread Paul Taylor
Ok, ive done the section so that I can add an extra application at a later stage if I need to. You say in your post index.xml do you mean index.jsp or web.xml I've created a new index.jsp which provides the user with a hyperlink to testapp but I dont know if I can make the new page

Re: How do default to get website to go straight to my webapp ?

2004-11-10 Thread Paul Taylor
Ok FYI, done it added head meta http-equiv=refresh content=1; URL=../testapp/overview/startup.jsp/ /head to index.jsp Paul Taylor wrote: I've created a new index.jsp which provides the user with a hyperlink to testapp but I dont know if I can make the new page automatically go to testapp

Re: Preventing users getting accessing to directory contents in Tomcat

2004-11-10 Thread Paul Taylor
requests. Code you JSP to look for the request method. If the method is NOT POST, then redirect them to some error page. (Or the start page) For example, in JSTL (but not verified) c:if test='${POST ne pageContext.request.method}' c:redirect url=start.jsp / /c:if -Tim Paul Taylor wrote: Point

Use of Referer header

2004-11-10 Thread Paul Taylor
I have a WebPage which can be called from two different webpages, and I wanted it to have a back button. Originally I had the calling pages passing a parameter to tell the called page what called it. Then someone pointed out %=request.getHeader(REFERER)% to m. This works much better. But I

Preventing users getting accessing to directory contents in Tomcat

2004-11-09 Thread Paul Taylor
Under tomcat 4 my jsps are held in a subdiir called jsp which contains further subdirectories What do I put into web.xml to stop requests such as http//localhost:8080/myapp/jsp or http//localhost:8080/myapp/jsp/info listing the contents of the directory.

Deploying a war in TC4

2004-11-05 Thread Paul Taylor
Hi I was originally deploying an application in Tomcat 4 using the exploded directory structure. Ive now created a war and tried to deploy that instead. First attempt it didnt do anything I then changed docbase from appname to appname.war in server.xml and on starting tomcat it tried to deploy

Re: Deploying a war in TC4

2004-11-05 Thread Paul Taylor
Thanks I use a File() constructor because the same class is used in a standalone situation Ive checked my server.xml and it already seems to have unpacking set. !-- Define the default virtual host -- Host name=localhost debug=0 appBase=webapps unpackWARs=true autoDeploy=true should my

Tomcat 4.1 not starting, how do I track error (database pooling)

2004-11-04 Thread Paul Taylor
Hi having written an application that ran fine on Tomcat 5 I am having to regress it to run on Tomcat 4.1 running on Windows. part of the deployment involves setting up database pooling. First of all I deployed my application war only and started Tomcat using catalina start this worked ok, but

Re: Tomcat 4.1 not starting, how do I track error (database pooling)

2004-11-04 Thread Paul Taylor
Thanks very much all working, the problem was I had removed docbase paramter not hinking it was needed because the code was hosted directly under webapps. BTW username is correct in TC4. My context is privileged just because I copied it from somehwere else without knowing what it meant, no

Re: using the Standard jdk 1.4 logging with Tomcat 5

2004-10-15 Thread Paul Taylor
Spoke to someone else who had the same problem. As far as I can see this is a bug in Tomcat, it is unable to find the custom formatter unless anyone knows different Ill raise this as a bug. Paul Taylor wrote: Did you specify your own formatter in your properties file ? Ive changed my code from

Re: using the Standard jdk 1.4 logging with Tomcat 5

2004-10-07 Thread Paul Taylor
logging with java.util.logging.config.file property and config file. - Jukka - Paul Taylor wrote: Hi in a previous non Tomcat project I wrote some classes that used the java.util.logging library that comes with java 1.4 quite successfully. I am now trying to use the same classes with Toimcat

using the Standard jdk 1.4 logging with Tomcat 5

2004-09-27 Thread Paul Taylor
Hi in a previous non Tomcat project I wrote some classes that used the java.util.logging library that comes with java 1.4 quite successfully. I am now trying to use the same classes with Toimcat 5.0 but it doesnt like it. With the logging classes you can provide a configuration class which you

Writing your own realm for Tomcat 4.0

2003-07-10 Thread Paul Taylor
Im trying to write my own realm for Tomcat 4 WebDav application. I have already written some JAAS Authenication modules which are used by our main application and support Database and LDAP authentication but I need think I need to use tomcat realm for Webdav to force the user authentication