I found the problem, your right, I removed </context>. and I understand
what path and context are now:)
thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Hockings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: adding context
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> First of all understand that I am not as expert as some on the list but
> I learn reasonably well by example. Yes, you can put context's where
> ever you like (as far as I know). I have locations defined in my
> current setup.
>
> I notice that you ended the context statement with a "/>" does this
> mean that you have removed the logger statement & all the rest of the
> stuff that is there by default (including the closing </context>)? I
> ask this because you seemed to be trying to re-define the root context
> (and maybe that is the problem). If that is not the case maybe you need
> to set the path to something sensible ("C:/" ain't).
>
> So to answer to http://localhost:8080/my-context maybe do something like:
>
> <Context path="/my-context" docBase="C:/Projects/calendar/htdocs"
> debug="0" reloadable="true"/>
>
> If you are trying to change where http://localhost:8080/ would look for
> content then maybe you want to change the <host> appbase? I've not
> tried doing that (yet) but the server.xml seems to indicate that it is
> possible.
>
> Mike
>
>
> 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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