Well, it sounds like a guess...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Micael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 12:33 AM Subject: Re: ?? Simple Newbie Question about Root Context ?? > The reason has to be, then, that the startup of the webapp creates a > default context on its own, because it cannot happen magically. I hope > that does not sound "smart-alexey" but, rather, clear. > > > > At 08:14 PM 3/30/03 -0600, you wrote: > >But my point is that everything works fine even *with* the comment. THAT is > >what's confusing. > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Carol Carrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 4:20 PM > >Subject: Re: ?? Simple Newbie Question about Root Context ?? > > > > > > > The website I sent tells you to take the comments out. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Tony LaPaso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 5:01 PM > > > Subject: Re: ?? Simple Newbie Question about Root Context ?? > > > > > > > > > > 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] > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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] > > > > LEGAL NOTICE > > This electronic mail transmission and any accompanying documents contain > information belonging to the sender which may be confidential and legally > privileged. 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