A very strange behaviour
Hi I'm designing a new web application and I have stored my files in the D:\Tests\Web\HeaderTest directory and I have defined the following Context in the server.xml: Context path=/headertest docBase=D:\Tests\Web\HeaderTest debug=0 privileged=true / I suppose this tells the Tomcat that the root directory for my webapp is D:\Tests\Web\HeaderTest or http://localhost:8080/headertest. But if I define a link in a page in my webapp such as: a href=/home.jspLink /a it refers to a wrong document: http://localhost:8080/home.jsp which is unavailable. Does anybody know what's wrong with this? Also another problem is that when I include a file using the include action or even the include directive the links defined in the included document changes so they don't refer to their original destinations anymore. For example, I want a header.html to be included in all the pages throughout my web site but if I include the header.html in subdirectories of my web app, the links get broken. I have tried lots of guesses and I have read some parts of JSP 1.2 Spec that are about includes and ... but I have not found the answer. All helps are appreciated. Thanks in advance.
RE: A very strange behaviour
This is normal. The problem is the browser, that translates /home.jsp to server/home.jsp and makes this petition to tomcat. If you want change that, use relative paths. -Mensaje original- De: Behrang Saeedzadeh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: miércoles, 18 de septiembre de 2002 15:49 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: A very strange behaviour Hi I'm designing a new web application and I have stored my files in the D:\Tests\Web\HeaderTest directory and I have defined the following Context in the server.xml: Context path=/headertest docBase=D:\Tests\Web\HeaderTest debug=0 privileged=true / I suppose this tells the Tomcat that the root directory for my webapp is D:\Tests\Web\HeaderTest or http://localhost:8080/headertest. But if I define a link in a page in my webapp such as: a href=/home.jspLink /a it refers to a wrong document: http://localhost:8080/home.jsp which is unavailable. Does anybody know what's wrong with this? Also another problem is that when I include a file using the include action or even the include directive the links defined in the included document changes so they don't refer to their original destinations anymore. For example, I want a header.html to be included in all the pages throughout my web site but if I include the header.html in subdirectories of my web app, the links get broken. I have tried lots of guesses and I have read some parts of JSP 1.2 Spec that are about includes and ... but I have not found the answer. All helps are appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A very strange behaviour
Lots of thanks for your response, Miguel I think that you mean that I have to change the /home.jsp to ../home.jsp, isn't it? Thanks again, Behrang S. - Original Message - From: Miguel Angel Mulero Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 6:27 PM Subject: RE: A very strange behaviour This is normal. The problem is the browser, that translates /home.jsp to server/home.jsp and makes this petition to tomcat. If you want change that, use relative paths. -Mensaje original- De: Behrang Saeedzadeh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: miércoles, 18 de septiembre de 2002 15:49 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: A very strange behaviour Hi I'm designing a new web application and I have stored my files in the D:\Tests\Web\HeaderTest directory and I have defined the following Context in the server.xml: Context path=/headertest docBase=D:\Tests\Web\HeaderTest debug=0 privileged=true / I suppose this tells the Tomcat that the root directory for my webapp is D:\Tests\Web\HeaderTest or http://localhost:8080/headertest. But if I define a link in a page in my webapp such as: a href=/home.jspLink /a it refers to a wrong document: http://localhost:8080/home.jsp which is unavailable. Does anybody know what's wrong with this? Also another problem is that when I include a file using the include action or even the include directive the links defined in the included document changes so they don't refer to their original destinations anymore. For example, I want a header.html to be included in all the pages throughout my web site but if I include the header.html in subdirectories of my web app, the links get broken. I have tried lots of guesses and I have read some parts of JSP 1.2 Spec that are about includes and ... but I have not found the answer. All helps are appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A very strange behaviour
Hello Behrang, Well, that's not strange behavior, it is exactly what one should expect. Keep in mind that your context is at: http://localhost:8080/headertest As the browser see it, it is one directory in from the root of the web. The server understands this as a context rather than just another directory. If you want to tell the server than you want to reference a file from this same context, you need to provide the name of the context in your linked path. so instead of: a href=/home.jsphome/a you need: a href=/headertest/home.jsphome/a Now, you might as well, what if I change the same of the context? Now I am stuck with a hardcoded context path in my jsp. There are a couple solutions. 1. dynamically write in the context name at runtime so no matter what context name you deploy your app under, it will always refer to the correct context. 2. refer to your pages in a relative fashion. When you reference /, you reference the root of the web. However, if you just did ./, that says whatever directory I am in, start from there and find my document. 3. deploy your app to the root of the web. Look at Tomcat's ROOT application and how it is deployed. All solutions have their issues. #1 hobbles you with having to place all that dynamic writing of context's. #2 makes you always have to know what directory your page is in and how it is relative to all the other pages. And, if you move the page to another directory, especially deeper or more shallow in the tree, you will have to modify the links to point to the new relative locations of all the files. #3 can be deceiving because it looks like the problem is solved, but if you count on this solving your problem, you have to make sure that everyone who installs your app does so as the root application and you can't always count on that. Another way to solve this issue is to use MVC where you have a servlet mapping and some event handling system that knows where the pages are. However, you still have to provide the reference to the current context in the link that points to your controller servlet. So, you'll never solve this issue fully, but you have a number of options to go with to help deal with it. Hope that helps. Jake Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 8:48:46 AM, you wrote: BS Hi BS I'm designing a new web application and I have stored my files in the D:\Tests\Web\HeaderTest directory and I have defined the following Context in the server.xml: BS Context BS path=/headertest BS docBase=D:\Tests\Web\HeaderTest BS debug=0 BS privileged=true BS / BS I suppose this tells the Tomcat that the root directory for my webapp is D:\Tests\Web\HeaderTest or http://localhost:8080/headertest. BS But if I define a link in a page in my webapp such as: BS a href=/home.jspLink /a BS it refers to a wrong document: http://localhost:8080/home.jsp which is unavailable. BS Does anybody know what's wrong with this? BS Also another problem is that when I include a file using the include action or even the include directive the links defined in the included document changes so they don't refer to their original BS destinations anymore. For example, I want a header.html to be included in all the pages throughout my web site but if I include the header.html in subdirectories of my web app, the links get BS broken. BS I have tried lots of guesses and I have read some parts of JSP 1.2 Spec that are about includes and ... but I have not found the answer. BS All helps are appreciated. BS Thanks in advance. -- Best regards, Jacobmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
