RE: Problem mapping servlets to /servlets/*

[Lian, Xiaobu (Alice) (Xiaobu (Alice))]

Hi Milt,

You are right.  This is exactly what I had experienced.  Please see my 
previous posted message yesterday (4/22/01)
"mod_jk.conf configuration:  Access servlets from apache server 
with url <servername>/servlets/<servlet-class>".

I use mod_jk and play with mod_jk.conf-local for a while, but did not
fiugure out
how to make apache knowing servlets to send to tomcat.  Do you have any
ideas
about how to configure mod_jk.conf?  Thanks a lot!

Alice

Xiaobu Alice Lian
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-----Original Message-----
From: Milt Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 9:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problem mapping servlets to /servlets/*


On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Diego Castillo wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am quite new to Tomcat and I have encountered problems in mapping
> servlets to specific URLs. Basically, I want my servlets to be
> activated when invoked through an URL that contains /servlets/* in
> addition to default /servlet/*.
>
> I have added the following to my %TOMCAT_HOME%\conf\web.xml:
>
> <web-app>
>     [...]
>     <servlet-mapping>
>         <servlet-name>
>             invoker
>         </servlet-name>
>         <url-pattern>
>             /servlets/*
>         </url-pattern>
>     </servlet-mapping>
>     [...]
> </web-app>
>
> This does not work. If I point to
> http://localhost/servlets/IsItWorking instead of
> http://localhost/servlet/IsItWorking, Apache is not able to find the
> appropriate page.

I suspect the key point there is that *Apache* is not able to find the
appropriate page, i.e. it's not even getting to Tomcat.  The web.xml
files are only read by Tomcat.  My guess is you need to insert some
appropriate directives in the tomcat/apache conf file so that Apache
knows to pass these URLs to Tomcat in the first place.  What exactly
those are depends on which module you're using to connect Tomcat to
Apache (mod_jserv, mod_jk, mod_webapp).  Check the tomcat/apache conf
file you have now for samples.

Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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