> From: Mark Eggers [mailto:its_toas...@yahoo.com.INVALID] > Subject: Re: Servlet <welcome-file-list> overridden by Apache Tomcat welcome > page?
> I just played with Eclipse Neon (newest release). It does copy over a > Tomcat configuration into your workspace, and then runs Tomcat from that > (sort of like RUNNING.txt). I thought there was some way to disable such obnoxiousness, but I don't remember the details. > That being said, Eclipse does not handle ROOT well at all by default. If > I tell Maven to have a final name of ROOT, then Eclipse edits the > workspace server.xml with: > <Host> > <Context docBase="CSEFive" > path="/ROOT" > reloadable="true" > source="org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:CSEFive"/> > </Host> Clearly broken. (Also, there is no <Context> attribute of "source".) > If I name things normally, then the application comes up as CSEFive, and > the portion of server.xml reads as follows: > <Host> > <Context > docBase="CSEFive" > path="/CSEFive" > reloadable="true" > source="org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:CSEFive"/> > </Host> Other than the source attribute, at least that's legal. > The only way that I know of to manage this from within Eclipse is the > following: > Right-mouse click on the project, and go the the following in the drop > down menu: > Properties->Web Project Settings > Change the Context root to / Strictly speaking, this isn't correct; the default webapp must have an empty path string. > Run your project from within Eclipse, and it will come up as > http://localhost:8080/ That's an accident, since the path attribute is not valid. > Eclipse will rewrite the server.xml in your workspace to: > <Host> > <Context > docBase="CSEFive" > path="/" > reloadable="true" > source="org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:CSEFive"/> > </Host> The path attribute is illegal. You would think after this number of years, Eclipse would at least get the syntax right. > In any case, once you move out of an Eclipse-controlled Tomcat, Which seems to be highly desirable, given the mess Eclipse is making. > the WAR file needs to be named ROOT.war (case matters, even on Windows). As Hassan previously noted. > You'll need to move Tomcat's default ROOT web application to another > location. Or just delete it. > In short, it's an Eclipse artifact. A seriously broken artifact. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
