That is correct. Realistically as long as the docBase is valid and writable by your tomcat user then you can place it anywhere.

Did the example stuff work for you? Let me know

JM

At 05:23 PM 11/1/2002 -0800, Jonathan Zhang wrote:

 So is it possible to add a context that's not within the tomcat root
directory. By tomcat root directory I mean C:\Program Files\Apache
Group\Tomcat 4.1\ as an example on my machine.
If I want to put my jsps in c:\some_dir, is that possible?

thanks for the help

-jonthan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan-Michael Ong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tomcat Users
List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: adding context


> Hi there,
>
> path is for url so your example below will fail
> <Context path="C:/" docbase="Projects/calendar/htdocs" debug="0"/>
>
> http://localhost:8080/<context_path>/path/to/servlet
>
> Does the examples work for you? http://localhost:8080/examples?
>
> How about removing this context and sticking with the basic build and
> enabling debugging (i.e. change debug from 0 to 1 on the <Context>)
>
> Finally check for stray characters in your MANIFEST-MF file. At least with
> ATG/Dynamo its very picky about its manifest file with ^M control chars.
>
> Good luck
>
> JM
>
>
> At 05:02 PM 11/1/2002 -0800, Jonathan Zhang wrote:
> >I tried that, and a couple of other variations like
> ><Context path="C:/" docbase="Projects/calendar/htdocs" debug="0"/>
> >  but it still gave me the same nullPointer exception.why?
> >thanks for the help
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "M. Hockings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 4:13 PM
> >Subject: Re: adding context
> >
> >
> > > Try using forward slashes for  the directory delimiter?
> > >
> > > <Context path="" docbase="c:/Projects/calendar/htdocs" debug="0"/>
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> > > Jonathan Zhang wrote:
> > >
> > > >hi Guys,
> > > >I'm running tomcat 4.x on windows xp and I'm trying to add a context
to
> > > > <Context path="" docbase="c:\Projects\calendar\htdocs" debug="0"/>
> > > >
> > > >I get the following exception:
> > > >
> > > >Starting service Tomcat-Standalone
> > > >Apache Tomcat/4.1.12
> > > >java.lang.NullPointerException
> > > >        at java.io.File.<init>(File.java:180)
> > > >        at
> >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.getBasePath(StandardContext.
> > > >java:3833)
> > > >        at
> >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3
> > > >397)
> > > >        at
> >org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188)
> > > >
> > > >        at
> >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:738)
> > > >        at
> >org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188)
> > > >
> > > >        at
> >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:347
> > > >)
> > > >        at
> >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:4
> > > >97)
> > > >        at
> >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:218
> > > >9)
> > > >        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:510)
> > > >        at
> >org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400)
> > > >        at
> >org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180)
> > > >        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native
Method)
> > > >        at
> >sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
> > > >java:39)
> > > >        at
> >sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
> > > >sorImpl.java:25)
> > > >        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
> > > >        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203)
> > > >
> > > >thanks for the help
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
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> > >
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