H- Thank you for the clarity. Being a newbie, still not sure how Tomcat does what it does. So the confirmation on key points is very helpful. I'll go through the process and hopefully everything will work out alright. If not I'm sure the mailing list will be hearing my cries of pain and anguish soon enough. Thanks. -Sterling PS(BTW - Tomcat does work with Apache right now. The examples come up and the servlets work fine. And that crazy red page for test pops up also. Although not really sure what it's testing. 8^) Kitching Simon wrote: > Hi Sterling, > > Basically, your description of the process to set > up a new webapp below is correct. > > I suggest that you consider this process as > having two parts: > (a) setting up tomcat > (b) setting up apache > > You can configure tomcat, then check that it > is all correct by using tomcat's http port (default > port = 8080). Once this works, then try setting > up apache to pass on the relevant requests > to tomcat. Setting up apache causes lots of > people headaches, so I really recommend > making sure it works with plain tomcat first. > > Tomcat 4.0 will apparently remove the need to > configure apache; tomcat will be able to tell > apache about what urls it wishes to handle. > This is not the case for tomcat3.1/3.2 though, > unfortunately. > > [more comments embedded below] > > Regards, > > Simon > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Sterling [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 11:39 PM > > To: Tomcat-user > > Subject: Execute JSP's in a different directory - sans-examples. > > > > H- > > > > I've been poking around the docs and archives for this list and from > > what I see there isn't a simple way to make this happen. > > Set up another directory that will execute JSP files without having to > > go through examples. (And from what I've seen this directory cannot be > > inside the httpd/htdocs directory either. True?) > > > > For example: > > Add to tomcat-apache.conf file: > > ApJServMount /MYDIRECTORY ajpv12://127.0.0.1:8007 > > > > Create a directory inside > > /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/MYDIRECTORY > [Kitching Simon] > Well, you can put your document root anywhere. If it is under > webapps, then you don't need to tweak the server.xml file > manually, but you do have to live with the /MYDIRECTORY > prefix for each url. The alternative is to edit $TOMCAT_HOME/ > server.xml, and define a <context>, with docRoot set to > any directory you want. Tomcat3.2 also comes with an > admin utility to define new contexts via a web page, but I > haven't tried this myself... > > > Create all the special JSP files and dirs in that directory > > META-INF, WEB-INF, images, jsp, servlets. > [Kitching Simon] > Well, yeah. If you want to serve files to a browser, you > need to put the pages somewhere... > > > Now modify the web.xml file inside WEB-INF to include every servlet that > > I'm going to use. When I create another servlet I must re-edit this file > > to include that servlet than reload Tomcat, Restart Apache. > [Kitching Simon] > If you are happy to have servlets which are accessed via the url > /web-app-name/servlet/servlet-class-name, and you don't > need any special parameters to be passed to the servlets, then > you can use the default mapping [you still need to tell apache > that /web-app-name/servlet/... is to be handled by tomcat]. > But if you want servlets to be executed by urls that don't > have a particular prefix, or you want servlet init parameters, > then yes you need a servlet entry in web.xml for each servlet. > I really can't see how else it could be done...until we get that > telepathic interface I've been waiting for. > > > This can't be right. This is a lot of configuring just to pull up > > http://www.myserver.net/MYDIRECTORY > > and have it pull and executes JSP files. > > > [Kitching Simon] > No, if you just want to execute JSP files, it is quite simple. No > WEB-INF directory is needed, no web.xml, etc. > If you want *servlets* as well, then it gets a bit more complicated. > I suggest that it is no more complicated than ASP+COM, or PHP. > > > Is this the only way (did I even get it right?) or am I reading the > > wrong information? > > > > Thanks for any thoughts or insights you might have. > > -Sterling > >
