Ok, if I could read I'd be dangerous. I finally found the crossContext attribute in the context descriptor. Man, I just glossed right over that one. Changed it in the web app accessing the root directory and voila, it works. Duh (dull slap as hand hits forhead with enough force to crack the skull).
-----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Lanham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 3:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Trying to retrieve the ROOT context in Servlet. I have been trying for days and tons of google searches and mail archive searches and can't find an answer to the quandry I find myself in. I need to allow users to upload to a directory in the ROOT context of my tomcat server. For some reason, and it may be a security deal, I can't retrieve the server context for "/" so I can get the actual path to upload the file. It always comes back null. I know that the Java servlet specifications say the null may be returned if the container, for some reason, doesn't want to return the context. I don't know if it's a tomcat configuration, or if there is some other mechanism to use besides getServletContext().getContext("/"). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jeffrey Lanham Miller Curtain Company --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
