Re: Making my servlet the default instead of what's in ROOT

2005-07-18 Thread Chris Abajian
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 17:37 +0100, Mark Thomas wrote:

 Tomcat version?

jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9

 Chris Abajian wrote:
  More clues:
  
  We got it to work if you put
  
  Context path= docBase=webapps/our unpacked war file dir 
  
  in the top-level server.xml file.  It does NOT work if you put this
  context fragment in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost
  
  the documentation on auto-deployment is frustrating in a couple of
  points.  My working hypothesis is that Catalina finds and parses the XML
  context fragment correctly, but then, when encountering the war file
  (or expanded directory) containing WEB-INF/web.xml it generates a new
  context automatically.  The docs are vague on this, offering a warning
  that explicit contexts don't play well with autodeployed apps.
  
  Can anyone offer some insights into this?  Is this the intended
  behavior?
  
  On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:13 -0700, Chris Abajian wrote:
  
 I want http://mylocal.tomcat.machine/ to run my servlet's hello world
 (instead of whatever's in ROOT) without having to put the servlet name
 in the path, i.e. I want it to be the front door for the domain.
 
 Can't make this work, no amount of futzing with Context path= or
 docBase= does it.
 
 This is a stupid question but I've been Googling and tweaking for a day
 now.  Help?
 
 
 
 
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Re: Making my servlet the default instead of what's in ROOT

2005-07-17 Thread Mark Thomas

Tomcat version?

Mark

Chris Abajian wrote:

More clues:

We got it to work if you put

Context path= docBase=webapps/our unpacked war file dir 


in the top-level server.xml file.  It does NOT work if you put this
context fragment in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost

the documentation on auto-deployment is frustrating in a couple of
points.  My working hypothesis is that Catalina finds and parses the XML
context fragment correctly, but then, when encountering the war file
(or expanded directory) containing WEB-INF/web.xml it generates a new
context automatically.  The docs are vague on this, offering a warning
that explicit contexts don't play well with autodeployed apps.

Can anyone offer some insights into this?  Is this the intended
behavior?

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:13 -0700, Chris Abajian wrote:


I want http://mylocal.tomcat.machine/ to run my servlet's hello world
(instead of whatever's in ROOT) without having to put the servlet name
in the path, i.e. I want it to be the front door for the domain.

Can't make this work, no amount of futzing with Context path= or
docBase= does it.

This is a stupid question but I've been Googling and tweaking for a day
now.  Help?





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Making my servlet the default instead of what's in ROOT

2005-07-13 Thread Chris Abajian
I want http://mylocal.tomcat.machine/ to run my servlet's hello world
(instead of whatever's in ROOT) without having to put the servlet name
in the path, i.e. I want it to be the front door for the domain.

Can't make this work, no amount of futzing with Context path= or
docBase= does it.

This is a stupid question but I've been Googling and tweaking for a day
now.  Help?

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Re: Making my servlet the default instead of what's in ROOT

2005-07-13 Thread Chris Abajian
More clues:

We got it to work if you put

Context path= docBase=webapps/our unpacked war file dir 

in the top-level server.xml file.  It does NOT work if you put this
context fragment in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost

the documentation on auto-deployment is frustrating in a couple of
points.  My working hypothesis is that Catalina finds and parses the XML
context fragment correctly, but then, when encountering the war file
(or expanded directory) containing WEB-INF/web.xml it generates a new
context automatically.  The docs are vague on this, offering a warning
that explicit contexts don't play well with autodeployed apps.

Can anyone offer some insights into this?  Is this the intended
behavior?

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:13 -0700, Chris Abajian wrote:
 I want http://mylocal.tomcat.machine/ to run my servlet's hello world
 (instead of whatever's in ROOT) without having to put the servlet name
 in the path, i.e. I want it to be the front door for the domain.
 
 Can't make this work, no amount of futzing with Context path= or
 docBase= does it.
 
 This is a stupid question but I've been Googling and tweaking for a day
 now.  Help?
 
-- 
Chris Abajian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thePlatform, Inc.
(206) 839-0600 ext. 216

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