Running struts 1.0 on Iplanet 4.1 on Solaris and it works on NT too! The guide explains how to deploy struts on the IP41 server. This deployment guide is limited to only describing the deployment of the action servlet and not the taglibs.
If you are using taglibs please check the IP documentation...Even though its a hard battle, it is possible to deploy the struts taglibs using the documentation...I know, I did it and forgot how ;-) When deploying on IP41 yo face many challenges. First of all, filesystem is not standard compliant, meaning no webapps folder, no WEB-INF, no web-xml, no wars etc... I took me a couple of days when I first had to find out how to do it but otherwise, deployment on the IP is fairly simple, as long as you stay away from all the funky stuff, such as serving .jsps out of WEB-INF, running several apps, etc... In this document I have the following layout... Iplanet is installed in /apps/iplanet The documentroot is at /apps/iplanet/docs The classes folder is at /apps/iplanet/docs/classes and contains both .jars and class files... Putting the files in the right place... As IP doesnt have any WEB-INf capabilities, and considering that struts tries to load struts-config.xml from this folder, your first problem arises. The easiest fix is to create a WEB-INF folder in the documentroot and put your struts-config.xml in here... Another way to solve it is to add the "config" parameter to servlets.properties (see later), and point at an absolute file path... ApplicationRessources.properties also go into the class folder. Your .jsp's , images, etc goes into the document root (of course)... Next task is to copy the struts.jar (and all your other .jars and classes) to the classes folder. Configuring the Action servlet. (Could be done through the GUI interface...but really...) We now point your attention to the IP configuration files: These are placed in /apps/iplanet/https-yourserver/config First of all we need to look at the jvm12.conf. This file contains the classpath that the jvm is launched with. - Add struts.jar, xerces.jar and probably parser.jar to the jvm.classpath. Next up is the servlets.properties Add the following line servlet.action.code=org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet This registers the ActionServlet under the name action optionally, add the following line: servlet.action.initArgs=config=//WEB-INF//struts-config.xml Which tells the action servlet where to look for struts configuration Then we turn to the rules.properties. This file contains the url mapping of the servlet. Add the following line /action=action This makes the action servlet react to urls containing action, such as http://localhost/action/dostuff Note: The struts website contains info on registering the action servlet as .do So, thats it...struts is now deployed and you should be able to run your app Mikkel Bruun mikkel at helenius dot org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
