On -1 xxx -1, [646] Christoph Sch?nfeld wrote:
> From: "[646] Christoph Sch?nfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Automatic generation of user webapps
> (http://localhost/~user/webapp)
>
> In Chapter 9.1 the Java Servlet Specification 2.3 says:
>
> "A servlet container can establish rules for automatic generation of
> web applications. For example a ~user/ mapping could be used to map to
> a web application based at /home/user/public_html/."
>
> Does Tomcat 4 support this? I know, the specification explicitly says
> "can," but this feature would be really useful! All servlet developers
> could just put their web applications into $HOME/webapps and Tomcat
> would automatically create them a context on startup.
>
> The WebAppDeploy directive does not seem to support this. Can it be
> achieved somehow else?
>
Docs for doing this in Tomcat 4 (stand alone) are available at:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/config/host.html
Scroll down to "User Web Applications" at the bottom. To do this through
Apache, you'd need to convince Apache to do some things for you -- I don't
know how that would be done.
> thanks,
> Christoph
Craig
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