The servletmapping is not taken into account when generating the auto-conf
files.
rename the file, edit it to your needs and include that one in your
httpd.conf
Reagards,
Andreas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 4:03 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: servlet-mapping question
>
>
> I have installed a servlet in a webapp directory named metis. I can
> run the servlet with the URL:
>
> http://myplace.no/metis/servlet/XlnWebServlet/pub/models/training.kmv
>
> ...but I want to use this instead:
>
> http://myplace.computas.no/metis/repository/pub/models/training.kmv
>
> In the web.xml file, I added this after the servlet element for
> XlnWebServlet:
>
> <servlet-mapping>
> <servlet-name>
> XlnWebServlet
> </servlet-name>
> <url-pattern>
> /repository/*
> </url-pattern>
> </servlet-mapping>
>
> ...but it doesn't work. The problem is the tomcat-apache.conf file
> that is automatically generated. It contains this:
>
> Alias /metis C:\opt\tomcat\webapps\metis
> <Directory "C:\opt\tomcat\webapps\metis">
> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
> </Directory>
> ApJServMount /metis/servlet /metis
> <Location /metis/WEB-INF/ >
> AllowOverride None
> deny from all
> </Location>
>
> If I change the ApJServMount to:
>
> ApJServMount /metis /metis
>
> ...then the URL I want to use works. The problem with this is that
> tomcat
> generates tomcat-apache.conf automatically, which is nice, but it
> always wants to put /metis/servlet there instead of just /metis. Is
> there a reason for appending "servlet" there? I don't want that word
> to appear in the URLs. Can I configure the way tomcat generates the
> apache-tomcat file so that it does not append /servlet ?
>
> Also, I am running this on Windows 2000. Hopefully, eXcelon will
> support linux next year. Until then, since tomcat must be started
> before Apache, does anyone know how to tell Windows 2000 to start
> tomcat before Apache?
>
> martin
>
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