Hi, PiFen,
I think you are making two mistakes:
- a typo: docbase="d:....." should be docBase="d:...." (capital
B...)
- do not use windows backslashes: use instead normal backslashes :
d:/dev/etc/yourpath/myapp
Hope it helps,
Julio
----- Original Message -----
From: Ellwood, Pifen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 11:05 AM
Subject: RE: Changing root webapp-Can you take a look of my server.xml file?
> 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
>
>
