hi jason,
your timekeeping has no suffix ?
your main file in this folder has a suffix ?
no ? --> no help frmo mine
yes --> config your apache ...
set the DirectoryIndex aaa.bbb
i hope it will help a little
greetz
heinz
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Jason Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gesendet: Montag, 12. Juli 2004 22:15
> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: Application Context URL ?
>
>
> 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.
>
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