Congraduations. A little work and now you are a Tomcat killer!
Interesting, Mark. I am not using Tomcat 4.0, but 3.* and my examples is:
<Host name="127.0.0.1" >
<Context path=""
docBase="webapps/examples" />
<Context path="/examples"
docBase="webapps/ROOT" />
Your does not have "webapps"? Micael
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 6:03 AM
Subject: Re: .gif images not displaying with JSPs
>After my initial message, I created an images directory (eg.
>../myapp/images), so using <%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/image1.gif
>results in:
>
> /myapp/images/image1.gif
>
>In server.xml, I'm set up as:
>
> <Context path="/myapp" docBase="myapp" debug="0" reloadable="true">
> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
> prefix="myapp." suffix=".txt"
> timestamp="true"/>
> </Context>
>
>I noticed the difference between us is in docBase, where you prepend
>'webapps/'. I simply followed the examples when I updated server.xml for my
>app. I'm just happy to say it now works 100% under Tomcat!
>
>Mark
>
>
>At 10:03 PM 11/27/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>>At any rate, Mark, I would be interested in what the path you get is.
Just
>>put <%= request.getContextPath() %> before
>> <img src='<%= request.getContextPath() %>/blah/blah.gif'/>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 11:03 AM
>>Subject: RE: .gif images not displaying with JSPs
>>
>>
>>>Yes, that fixed the problem - thank you!
>>>
>>>Takes care of my problem with Tomcat, but it introduces a problem with
the
>>>same app under VAJ - request.getContextPath() isn't in the IBM
>>>HttpServletRequest interface. Yet another place where VAJ isn't fully
>>>compliant with the Sun APIs...
>>>
>>>Thanks again for the help Carsten!
>>>
>>>Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>At 12:50 PM 11/27/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>>>>I've run into problems with images showing on JSPs in the past as well,
>>and
>>>>I found that using request.getContextPath() solves the problem to give
you
>>>>an absolute path within the context.
>>>>
>>>>example:
>>>><img
>>>>src='<%=request.getContextPath()%>/graphics/flags/german_flag.gif'/></a>
</
>>tr
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hope that helps!
>>>>
>>>>Carsten
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>>Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:36 PM
>>>>To: Tomcat Users List
>>>>Subject: Re: .gif images not displaying with JSPs
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Can you display images from a JSP? My straight html pages display
images
>>>>with no problems using Tomcat. What's odd is if I take the html source
>>>>generated by the JSP (ie, 'view source from the browser'), save it as an
>>>>html file and re-display it, it's fine. So the html generated by the
JSP
>>>>seems ok - it's only when it's being pushed to the browser from the JSP
>>>>servlet where the images don't display.
>>>>
>>>>I don't understand odd classloader error messages that refer to the
>>images.
>>>> Since the servlet .java/.class are being dealt with in the ../work
>>>>directory, could this have something to do with it?
>>>>
>>>>Frustration mounting again...
>>>>
>>>>Mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>At 08:27 AM 11/27/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>>>>>I have a directory called graphics on the same level as WEB-INF, i.e.
>>>>>root_directory/webapps/myapp/graphics/flags/ and
>>>>>root_directory/webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/, and I use
>>>>> <img src='graphics/flags/german_flag.gif'/></a></tr>
>>>>>without dificulty, if that helps. This may have to do with my settings
>>in
>>>>>server.xml, which is:
>>>>>
>>>>> <Context path="/myapp"
>>>>> docBase="webapps/myapp"
>>>>> debug="0"
>>>>> reloadable="true" >
>>>>> </Context>
>>>>>
>>>>>Hope this helps. Again, inside and outside WEB-INF is a big deal.
>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 5:54 AM
>>>>>Subject: .gif images not displaying with JSPs
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>My servlet/JSP/JavaBean app is working under TC 4.0.1, except for
images
>>>>>>not displaying in JSPs. The various .gifs live in the root context for
>>the
>>>>>>application, ie. the same directory as the html and JSP files. The
JSP
>>>>has
>>>>>>simple embedded html statements such as:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <a><img src="image1.gif" align="left"></a>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>For each img tag, the application log has an associated set of errors:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2001-11-27 08:24:34
>>>>>>StandardWrapper[/myapp:org.apache.catalina.INVOKER.image1.gif]:
>>>>>> Marking servlet org.apache.catalina.INVOKER.image1.gif as
unavailable
>>>>>> 2001-11-27 08:24:34 invoker: Cannot allocate servlet instance for
>>path
>>>>>> /myapp/servlet/image1.gif
>>>>>> javax.servlet.ServletException: Wrapper cannot find servlet class
>>>>>>image1.gif or a
>>>>>> class it depends on
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Root Cause -----
>>>>>> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: image1.gif
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The generated Java code (in ../work directory) looks like the
following:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> out.write(" \r\n\r\n<a><img src=\"image1.gif\"
>>>>>>align=\"left\"></a>\r\n<a>
>>>>>> <img src=\"image2.gif\" align=\"left\"></a>\r\n");
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The page displays except for the images, and the resulting html pushed
>>to
>>>>>>the browser has the <img> tags. The JSPs work under other environments
>>>>(eg.
>>>>>>VAJ, Sun SDK, etc). What am I doing wrong this time under Tomcat?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>>Mark
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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