Under 5.0.16, I would run it as a server on XP, but not 2000. Under 5.0.18, I got it running as a server on 2000 immediately while XP took many installs, uninstalls, reboots and what not. (I still don't know what I finally did to get it to work.)
After getting 5.0.18 to run under XP, I tried launching my application. Entering "http://localhost/timesheet"; into the browser got a Page Not Found and did not resolve to "https://localhost/timesheet/login.jsp"; as it should. Examining the log showed that the "localhost-timesheet_log.txt" log file defined in the <Context> element for the timesheet application in server.xml didn't exist either. Tomcat seemed to be ignoring my application and its context even when I tried using the same conf\server.xml and conf\web.xml files that had worked on Windows 2000.
The stdout.logdid exist and showed that the various example contexts (servlet-examples, jsp-examples, balancer, etc.) had been initialized even though mine application hadn't. There were no error messages. Then I noticed that the samples didn't have a <Context> element in the server.xml file. Instead, they had a *.xml file in their application directory with ONLY the <Context> element in it (i.e., not a well-formed XML file).
When I made a copy of my application's <Context> element shown below and put it in "...\webapps\timesheet\timesheet.xml" it worked.
I've read the 5.0.18 release notes, the FAQ on the Jakarta website, and the tomcat-docs distributed with 5.0.18. I can't find a reference to these fragment files except for the mention of "Context Descriptions" under Deployer. However, those files are nested under the conf directory rather than under the application context.
Why does 5.0.18 recognize my application's <Context> element in the server.xml file on Windows 2000 but will only recognize it in a timesheet.xml file in my application directory on Windows XP? What is the value of having three possible locations for the same information? Where can I find it documented?
Merrill
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<Context path="/timesheet" docBase="timesheet" debug="0" reloadable="true" crossContext="true"> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" prefix="localhost_timesheet_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/> </Context>
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