Well, I don't have to create pages under ROOT as you did, but that's a separate issue from what I'm asking.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Carrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 3:50 PM Subject: Re: ?? Simple Newbie Question about Root Context ?? > Although I am really a newbie, I have the same o/s system. I have trouble > loading my pages until I created them under the ROOT path and uncommented > the section you are referring to. Here is a good web reference. > http://www.moreservlets.com/Using-Tomcat-4.html > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tony LaPaso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Tomcat User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 4:00 PM > Subject: ?? Simple Newbie Question about Root Context ?? > > > > My Tomcat skills are rusty -- I must be missing something easy here. > > > > I just installed TC v4.1.24 on Win 2k. The installation worked right out > of > > the box. I didn't have to make any changes to the server.xml. TC is up and > > running but I'm seeing something strange I was hoping someone could > explain: > > > > > > Here's a quote from the TC documentation: "...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." > > > > Okay, that's fine, but when I look at conf/server.xml I see this: > > > > <!-- Tomcat Root Context --> > > <!-- > > <Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="0"/> > > --> > > > > > > Why is this commented out? According to the documentation there must be a > > "context path equal to a zero-length string". The quote I cited seems to > > contradict what I'm seeing in server.xml. > > > > Even though this is commented out everything seems to work fine. In other > > words, if I browse to localhost:8080 I do indeed see > webapps/ROOT/index.jsp. > > Is the docBase named "ROOT" the default? If so, then the documentation > > should mention that I think. > > > > Thanks very much, > > > > Tony > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
