Hi Richard,
Tomcat provides a default web.xml in TOMCAT_HOME/conf which provides some
default stuff like mime-types, directory index filenames and other
stuff. However, every webapp *must* have its own web.xml. creating a
WEB-INF/web.xml under TOMCAT_HOME will do nothing. Tomcat will not see
it. It is of no use. Take a look at the way a context such as the
"examples" context that comes with Tomcat is set up.
The structure looks like:
mywebapp/
WEB-INF/
lib/
classes/
web.xml
Your static content such as .html and .jpg files go directly under
"mywebapp". You servlets, helper libraries, and web.xml configuration go
under the WEB-INF directory.
You should get a book that discusses this stuff because this is not
specific to Tomcat, it is the standard for all servlet containers that
implement the Servlet specification. I recommend Java Servlet Programming
by Jason Hunter, O'Reilly.
Jake
At 03:04 AM 7/16/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I am getting the following problem with my tomcat configuration.
>
>2002-07-16 12:47:35 ContextConfig[/~richard]: Missing application web.xml,
>using defaults only
>2002-07-16 12:47:35 Internal Error: File /WEB-INF/web.xml not found
>
>I realise that I could place a web.xml file in the context for /~richard,
>but I want to try and make the default web.xml work.
>
>I am wondering if anyone else knows of this problem, I have tried creating
>CATALINA_HOME/WEB-INF/web.xml (thinking that the file may be missing) but
>it still reports an error. Does anyone knmow where the default web.xml
>file should be located?, or why I am having this problem?
>
>Any Help appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>
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