Now I learn something new. Thanks :> Quintin Beukes
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:35 PM, David Jencks <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Quintin Beukes wrote: > >> Why does it have to have a servlet at all? > > You need a default servlet to serve static content. Jetty and tomcat > install one by default in each web app (unless you override it) but these > automatic default servlets serve content from inside the war. If you pack > stuff up in a war, you shouldn't need any servlet :-). If you want the > content served from somewhere else, you need to configure a default servlet > to tell it where the "somewhere else" is. > > hope this is clearer :-) > david jencks > > >> >> Quintin Beukes >> >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:05 PM, David Jencks <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Oct 13, 2009, at 8:31 AM, juhanay wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi >>>> My problem is simple. How to deploy plain html-files or a directory to a >>>> user without packing these things is a war file(like apache web server >>>> does). So that the user may browse the directory stucture with the >>>> browser. >>>> WAR-file is not viable option since i cannot pack all the files in a war >>>> file. >>> >>> Why not? >>> >>> Assuming you have a good answer to that question :-) you can set up a >>> web >>> app that has only the default servlet for the web container you are using >>> (jetty or tomcat) and configure it to serve static content from wherever >>> it >>> actually is. Unfortunately I don't have an example of how to do this >>> handy, >>> but I suspect either jetty or tomcat documentation might explain how to >>> do >>> this. It would be a good thing to get into our docs as well (assuming it >>> isn't already there and I just don't know about it). >>> >>> thanks >>> david jencks >>> >>>> -- >>>> View this message in context: >>>> >>>> http://www.nabble.com/How-to-deploy-plain-html-files-with-geronimo--tp25875139s134p25875139.html >>>> Sent from the Apache Geronimo - Users mailing list archive at >>>> Nabble.com. >>>> >>> >>> > >
