Ok, if anyone has any insight or the URL's of some good websites on Webapp portability, I would greatly appreciate it. I'm running into a problem where relative URL's are breaking and I can't keep all of them working.
I have an app deployed at: http://somewhere.com/app1/ Now my mapping for an application has /timekeeping/* going to a specific ctlTime servlet. This means that both request http://somewhere.com/app1/timekeeping/ and http://somwhere.com/app1/timekeeping will take you to the same place. However, depending which one is used the client URL is different. When I attempt to reference pictures that are in the app base, graphics directory I'm also running into a snafu. If I set the URL as '../graphics/g1.jpg' then it works most of the time. But I can't always guarantee how many directories levels will exist on the client URL since I'm doing all kinds of server-side forwarding. I would like to be able to use the '/graphics/g1.jpg' but that only works when the app is redeployed at ROOT. So I've decided that I'll just start setting my <BASE > in the jsp and set the value in my control servlet so that when the page is called it can use a <BASE href="<%=base.toString()%>" > . Now I'm running into all kinds of issues. Essentially, in my mind, tomcat should know that my host name is X and that my web-app context is Y and that a valid URL to my base context is http://X/Y/ However, no manipulation of the ServletContext or ServletContextConfig is getting me this information. The request object has the URL used to get to the servlet, but that's rather cloogey to me. Plus there's the chance that's simply wrong and has gotten to my servlet via mappings. Setting a document base based on that is not very reliable. So if anyone has solved this problem or got information on keeping a web-app portable with relative URL's, let me know. Thanks. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
