Paul, That's exactly my point -- and my question. I do NOT have a ROOT directory, THEREFORE Automatic Application Deployment does not automatically create a Context element with context path equal to the empty string, THEREFORE I am violating the configuration docs which say that you MUST have a Context with a context path equal to a zero-length string.
What are the ramifications of violating this ? Should I create a ROOT directory with dummy webapp just so that Tomcat will generate the Context element with context path equal to the empty string ? What will this do ? Why do the docs state that this is necessary ? - Charlie On Friday 10 January 2003 01:02 pm, you wrote: > On Friday 10 January 2003 03:53 pm, Charlie Toohey wrote: > > per the Tomcat configuration documentation at > > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/context.html > > > > "you MUST define a Context with a context path equal to a zero-length > > string. This Context becomes the default web application for this > > virtual host, and is used to process all requests that do not match any > > other Context's context path." > > > > I have two questions about this statement: > > > > 1) > > I don't have a Context meeting this description and everything seems to > > work fine, so what are the ramifications of violating this ? > > Charlie, if you click on the Automatic Application Deployment link in the > fourth or fifth paragraph on the same page, you will read the following: > > Automatic Application Deployment > * Any XML ... > * Any web... > * Any subdirectory within the Application Base directory that appears to be > an unpacked web application (that is, it contains a /WEB-INF/web.xml file) > will receive an automatically generated Context element, even if this > directory is not mentioned in the conf/server.xml file. This generated > Context entry will be configured according to the properties set in any > DefaultContext element nested in this Host element. The context path for > this deployed Context will be a slash character ("/") followed by the > directory name, unless the directory name is ROOT, in which case the > context path will be an empty string (""). > > The last sentence seems to address your question but you could try deleting > the ROOT directory, restarting Tomcat and seeing what happens then. > > > 2) > > If I were to follow this, and did not have an actual webapp with a > > zero-length string as the context path (meaning that I would not have > > anything valid to specify for docBase), would I then just create a dummy > > webapp in directory ROOT (or wherever) just so that I could comply with > > this ? > > > > - Charlie > > Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
