thanks for the advice, however I did that created a testing folder under the webapps folder. put in a basic index.jsp page, copied the WEB_INF folder from root, added a classes and lib sub folders
and same thing even made sure the grp was set to tomcat4 what am I doing wrong, when I started the index page came up just fine and I could also see the examples I am going to restart the server to see if that helps. this is very odd indeed. BTW any idea how to turn on the symbolic links support? --- Jason Bainbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day, > > You're first stop should be here: > > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/appdev/index.html > > and for something more indepth you can check out the > online version of Core > Servlets and JSP at: > > http://www.coreservlets.com/ > > I think by default support for symbolic links are > switched off so that is why > it wouldn't be working for you, the ROOT webapp is a > special one and servers > from the root context as the name would suggest. > What you want to do is > create something like: > > webapps/ > /mywebapp > yourjsp.jsp > /asubdir/asub.jsp > /WEB-INF > /classes > /lib > web.xml (copy the one from the ROOT web app to > start > > You JSP would then be accessible at > http://localhost:8080/mywebapp/yourjsp.jsp > and http://www.coreservlets.com/asubdir/asub.jsp > > That would give you a good start and the > documentation should help with the > rest. :) > > Cheers, > -- > Jason Bainbridge > http://jblinux.org > > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 05:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > I am totally new to JSP/serlets, my background is > C++ > > then PHP and recently Java again. I am fine with > > these, but this has me baffled. > > > > I am almost home when it comes to the install, had > > some issues but almost all is working. > > > > My last hurdle is one which is very confusing. > > > > ok, there is a webapps directory, inside is a very > > dirs, examples, ROOT etc. > > > > the normal root page loads up and I can get to the > > examples, the confusion starts here, the ROOT > houses > > the index.jsp, but the examples are not UNDER ROOT > > they are a different dir back one in webapps. > > > > WHEN I add a jsp page into the root it works fine > > > > SO all I want to do is start messing with JSP for > now. > > I have a folder which houses my work seperate from > the > > app structure. so I created a jsp folder and then > > threw in s ln -s to it in the ROOT (also tried the > > webapps) then I renamed the main index file under > > ROOT, so there is not one, then when I goto root > in > > the browser I get a dir tree. there is my jsp > folder > > BUT when I click on it it says resource is not > > available!! > > > > what I did was I changed the grp on the folder to > be > > tomcat4, just as the other items are. > > > > why can't I see this folder and get to a jsp in > there? > > > > the docs are confusing and all they talk about is > > setting up web apps and stuff, I am far from this, > I > > just want to do a very tests to get going. > > > > Do I need to create web app for each of them? > > > > I have looked online and have not found the > answer, > > please help! > > > > Thanks > > > > tomcat 4.1.24 > > redhat 7.3 > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > > 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] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
