Thanks for the reply
The problem I have is that I cannot get a context with the
path "/" to work -- I just get 404's. The site I'm trying
to work on (which already exists) uses url's like
"www.company.com/app1/index.jsp" and
"www.company.com/app2/index.jsp", where both
index1.jsp and index.2.jsp include urls like
"/include/setup.jsp". I can't seem to make this
work in tomcat 3.2. In tomcat 3.1 I did it by
setting up a Context with path="/" and
a docBase set to the parent directory which
includes "app1", "app2", and "include".
But in 3.2 when I do this I get 404's.
Kitching Simon wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> I'm not entirely sure what your problem is.
>
> I'm almost certain you cannot include files "across contexts"
> using <jsp:include> (ie run-time include). That would involve
> invoking a servlet in one context from a servlet in another
> context.
>
> I'm almost certain that <%@ include url> (ie compile-time include)
> would not work across contexts either. The JSP specification
> (I used jsp1.2b1) states that the url *must* be a relative URL. It
> also states that the included page is "subject to access control",
> ie only files accessable from the webapp are includable; this seems
> to rule out including any file that is not under the webapp-specific
> document root, ie nothing stored in another webapp(context) can
> be included.
>
> Why can't you have all your files in a single context?? And
> what is the relevance of the context path? Including of files
> should work regardless of what prefix the webapp(context) has
> been given.
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruce Cota [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 9:23 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Includes
> >
> > Hi, I'm a newcomer to Tomcat and recently upgraded from
> > 3.1 to 3.2. I have been working on a site in which one
> > directory holds files included in several sibling directories.
> >
> > With 3.1, I was able to use a Context with path="/", but
> > with 3.2 this does not seem to work -- I get 404's from
> > tomcat in 3.2.
> >
> > I tried breaking up my directories into different contexts, but
> > I can't seem to get includes to work across contexts -- I get
> > "Bad file argument to include" when I try to include a jsp
> > from the "include context" in a file in one of the other
> > contexts. For that matter, I seem to have the same problem
> > when I use anything but a relative url in an include.
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to use
> > a path="/" in a 3.2 context, or can I include files across
> > contexts?
> >
> > Thanks for any advice,
> > -Bruce
