Are you running out of the ROOT directory? If so, then that is correct. The real path of "/" is relative to your context so it would give you the absolute path to the root of your context, whichever context that is....that is if you are running from a directory and not directly from a .war file, in which case getRealPath() would return "null".
Jake
At 09:56 PM 3/31/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Hi,
I have Apache and Tomcat hooked-up using the mod_jk connector. I was wondering if Tomcat (or a Java Servlet running on Tomcat) is able to read the DocumentRoot of the Apache web server. I used the following code in my Servlet:
String doc_root = getServletContext().getRealPath("/"); out.println("doc_root = " + doc_root);
but doc_root comes out as the Tomcat ROOT directory path, and not the Apache DocumentRoot path. Is what I am looking for even possible? I know there are ways, but most of these involve hard-coding the path in Tomcat's config files (virtual host definitions and stuff like that). I am trying to avoid hard-coding the path anywhere in Tomcat.
Thanks,
Steve Cromer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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