If what you REALLY want to do is make your webapp be able to access resources outside of the webapp structure, and if you want to be non-J2EE, then you can write your own implementation of a JNDI DirContext, and allow it to find resources any way that you want. You just have to register that DirContext implementation using the <Resources> element for your context...
I've done this very thing to allow my Tomcat development environment to access jsp/html/css/etc files from MANY different locations outside of the webapp structure. It works great for a development environment where all of your resources aren't in the shape of a webapp, but you want to be able to have a context running against them as you work... ;) Dave Keyes -----Original Message----- From: Ming Zhao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:00 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: JSP's in other directories You use JK2 as the connector between Apache and Tomcat? If so, you can map your jsp in the workers2.properties. Still I have a question: how can you set the main directory of your page files and call Tomcat to deal with jsp files under your main directory? --- Erik Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nicholas J Campbell wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a question, I want to be able to access > JSP pages that > > are outside of the web-inf directory setup by > tomcat...I do not know how > > to do it, obviously. I have Apache 2 installed and > use that at my main > > server and then am running tomcat for the purposes > of Servlets and JSP's > > and I want to know what I have to do to make > myself be able to access a > > jsp page that is in a directory like c:\site > > You should generally be able to refer to resources > in your site by using > a path relative to the context. For instance, I > have the following site > structure: > > /MyApp > index.jsp > main.jsp > others.jsp > /WEB-INF > /classes > /com > /ptc > /myapp > SomeClass.class > OtherClass.class > /server > SomeServlet.class > OtherServlet.class > /lib > somejar.jar > > To access one of my JSPs from another JSP, I just > use a relative path in > the "HTML" part of the JSP. To forward to one of my > JSPs from a > servlet, I use the following line of code: > > String TARGET_JSP = "/main.jsp"; > > javax.servlet.ServletContext sc = > this.getServletContext(); > javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher rd = > > sc.getRequestDispatcher(TARGET_JSP); > rd.forward(); > > That's one way to do it, even though the servlet is > in > /MyApp/WEB-INF/classes and the JSP is in /MyApp. > > > > Erik > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
