Hi all, I posted this question over the weekend but nobody really seemed to know the answer. Several people speculated but nobody knew. Altough I'm sincerely hoping for an answer, please, if you don't know for sure, don't guess. :)
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 just fine 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 cited above 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. As I said, even though this is commented out everything seems to work fine. In other words, if I browse to "localhost:8080" TC does indeed serve up webapps/ROOT/index.jsp. Is the docBase named "ROOT" the default? If so, then the documentation seems out of date. I believe in past versions of TC it was definitely necessary to have a "context path equal to a zero-length string". If anybody knows (for sure), I would really appreciate an explanation. Thanks very much, Tony --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]