Sorry to butt in, but I have the same issue and not been able to solve it
for several days.
It is driving my crazy
I'm using Tomcat3.2 bata7, Apache 1.3, ant 1.2
I set up my web application in myhome/webapps/myapp created by build.xml.
I update the tomcat.conf file in the TOMCAT_HOME/conf add alias and
directory
as in the attached file
I update the server.xml file in the TOMCAT_HOME/conf add context path as
the documentation stated
<Context path = "/myapp"
docbase="webapps/myapp"
debug="9"
reloadable="true">
</Context>
When I start Tomcat, I got the error message:
Starting tomcat. Check logs/tomcat.log for error messages
2000-11-22 10:53:17 - ContextManager: Adding context Ctx( )
2000-11-22 10:53:17 - ContextManager: Adding context Ctx( /test )
2000-11-22 10:53:18 - Ctx( /myapp ): XmlReader - init /myapp null
2000-11-22 10:53:18 - Ctx( /myapp ): Loading -2147483646 jsp
Error generating automatic apache configuration
java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.tomcat.util.FileUtil.isAbsolute(FileUtil.java:289)
at
org.apache.tomcat.task.ApacheConfig.execute(ApacheConfig.java:219)
at
org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.generateServerConfig(Tomcat.java:219
)
at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.execute(Tomcat.java:202)
at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.main(Tomcat.java:237)
Error generating automatic Netscape configuration
java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.tomcat.util.FileUtil.isAbsolute(FileUtil.java:289)
at org.apache.tomcat.task.NSConfig.execute(NSConfig.java:136)
at
org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.generateServerConfig(Tomcat.java:231
)
at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.execute(Tomcat.java:202)
at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.main(Tomcat.java:237)
2000-11-22 10:53:19 - PoolTcpConnector: Starting HttpConnectionHandler on
8080
2000-11-22 10:53:19 - PoolTcpConnector: Starting Ajp12ConnectionHandler on
8007
Could you tell me what did I miss??
Thanks a lot
PiFen Ellwood
-----Original Message-----
From: Julio Serje (@canada.com) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 9:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Changing root webapp
You may define your root app in a different location than webapps. Just move
it to another directory and give the absolute path in your server.xml:
<Context path=""
docBase="/absolutepath/main"
debug="1"
reloadable="true"
trusted="true" >
</Context>
I have a setup like this and works fine.
Julio
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 11:22 AM
Subject: Changing root webapp
> In the default tomcat build there is a ROOT webapp which maps to /. Now I
> would like to map the pages and servlets in ROOT to some other path and
have a
> webapp of my own which handles /.
>
> I tried something like this in server.xml:
>
> <Context path="/root"
> docBase="webapps/ROOT"
> debug="0"
> reloadable="true"
> trusted="true" >
> </Context>
>
> <!-- Main applications and servlets -->
>
> <Context path=""
> docBase="webapps/main"
> debug="1"
> reloadable="true"
> trusted="true" >
> </Context>
>
> In other words, /root will map to the tomcat home page, etc. It works
fine
> except of course my main web app is loaded twice: once when server.xml is
read
> and once at autosetup time. AutoSetup scans the webapps directory, finds
> "main" and because there isn't a /main context, loads the context again.
This
> means that my load-on-startup servlets get loaded twice.
>
> Is there a better way of doing this?
>
> Richard
tomcat.conf
server.xml
