Hello Steve, It is fine to edit server.xml, but it might be easier to use a Context Configuration File. See the current webapps directory in any recent Tomcat release such as 4.1.8. Notice the admin.xml and manager.xml files? Just make a [myapp].xml file and add your <Context ...> tag with all nested tags needed to it. Write the path as whatever context path you want to access your app (eg... path="/myapp"). Then, for the docBase, use the directory or .war file that your app is being deployed from. For instance docBase="myapp" or docBase="myapp.war". The latter case will force the app to be served directly from the .war file where the former case forces it to be served from the directory.
Stop Tomcat, put both your [myapp].xml file and the .war or directory structure of your app in webapps, and start Tomcat. Everything should work fine. Jake Friday, January 17, 2003, 12:49:00 AM, you wrote: SRB> Hello there, newbie finds himself in some need of help with using the <Context> SRB> tag!! I happen to have a server-side Java programming book that tells the reader SRB> to edit this tag in the server.xml file with the specific context path for the SRB> servlet to be seen in the browser, HOWEVER I have noticed that some in this group SRB> have said that this whole file should just be left alone, that Tomcat could SRB> somehow "magically" find the correct path for the servlet! Who is right about this SRB> anyway?! SRB> __________________________________________________ SRB> Do you Yahoo!? SRB> Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. SRB> http://mailplus.yahoo.com SRB> -- SRB> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SRB> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Best regards, Jacob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
