Hi Dave. I think you're making this more complicated than it needs to be.
Two things: 1. Try putting your war file in the $CATALINA_HOME/webapps directory rather than $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/dummy. If your tomcat installation is set up to unpack war files (this is the default) it will create the "dummy" webapp directory for you and unpack everything into that directory when you restart tomcat. 2. The URL to use to access your webapp will also have to use port 8080. Unless you've modified your server.xml file and you're running tomcat as root that is. This set up will work with the out of the box tomcat installation. No need to modify server.xml at all. You should then be able to access your app like this: http://localhost:8080/dummy See if that simplifies things. Regards, Pete On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:51:26 -0400 (EDT) "Dave Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > kindof a newbie here so be gentle > I wrote a little dummy app with Forte 4.0 that consists of a jsp page with > a link that calls a servlet which does a database lookup and spews out some > data. It works fine with the built in copy of Tomcat that comes with Forte. > I build a war file and try to deploy it on another machine with Tomcat > 4.0.4 on it. I put my file dummy.war in the $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/dummy > dir and use this command from a browser > > http://localhost:8080/manager/install? > path=/dummy&war=jar:file:$CATALINA_HOME/webapps/dummy/dummy.war!/ > > now the command > > http://localhost:8080/manager/install > > tells me that my app is running, but when I try to access it with > > http://localhost/dummy or http://localhost/dummy/index.jsp it says the > resource is not available. I kinda thought Tomcat could access the war file > in it's bundled state but after reading the docs I got the impression the > manager app was gonna expand it, is that true? In my case the file wasn't > expanded. After some head scratching I figured I'd manually expand the war > file in the $CATALINA_HOME/ROOT dir. After doing that and restarting Tomcat > everything works fine with http://localhost/index.jsp. > > So, let me ask a few questions > > 1) What does the manager app do > does it modify $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml > should it expand the war file > > 2)If I'm gonna deploy multiple apps, what's the typical dir structure > $CATALINA_HOME/ROOT/app1, $CATALINA_HOME/ROOT/app2, etc > could i deploy an app outside the Tomcat dir structure (ie /home/mydir) > > 3)Is this the correct flow of things > Tomcat starts up and reads $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml and now knows > about the apps that are installed and what path they're mapped to. when a > client tries to access an app, Tomcat goes and looks in the jar file and > reads web.xml to discover what all is in the war file. Within the war file > any static content goes in the WEB-INF dir, class files go in WEB- > INF/classes and .jar files goe in WEB-INF/lib > > hep me, hep me > > Dave > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- Peter Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...the increased productivity fostered by a friendly environment and quality tools is essential to meet ever increasing demands for software. -- M. D. McIlroy, E. N. Pinson and B. A. Tague -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
