RE: Tomcat deployment question

[Lakshmi Venkataraman]

Please refer to the directory structure in the original message or
At the bottom of this email.

Given that directory structure, I have working configuration with
appBase="webapps" in
 server.xml (seems like a dummy value since we don't have anything in
that directory).
In ${catalina.home}/conf/catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml I have defined the
<Context> element with
docBase="${catalina.home}/htdocs".

Here are the questions:
Previously,  I had appBase="htdocs" and ROOT.xml was called htdocs.xml.
1) When absolute path such as ${catalina.home}/htdocs is specified why
does it look for
${catalina.home}/htdocs/htdocs/
2) Why does it expect a ROOT directory under htdocs?
3) What is special about ROOT? Should not the configuration be totally
under application
Developer's control?
4) What is path?

It is not very clear from the documenatation. It took me a while to get
to the current working
Configuration.  

I will appreciate it if one of you can clarify these concepts.

Thanks in advance,
Lakshmi


-----Original Message-----
From: Lakshmi Venkataraman
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:21 PM
To: 'Tomcat Users List'
Subject: RE: Tomcat deployment question

 I have finally a working configuration.  Please refer to the bottom of
this email  for the directory structure.
 In server.xml I changed appBase="webapps" (original value)  htdocs.xml
is renamed as ROOT.xml as Rashmi suggested with
docBase="${catalina.home}/htdocs  Then I am able to type
http://localhost:8080 which in turn looks up index.html from  the htdocs
directory
 
 Even so, I have some more questions and my understanding is not that
clear yet.
 I will post the questions in my next email.

Thanks
Lakshmi

-----Original Message-----
From: Lakshmi Venkataraman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:33 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: RE: Tomcat deployment question

 Hi Rashmi,
 Thanks!  I renamed htdocs.xml to ROOT.xml.
http://localhost:8080 did not work.
 However, http://localhost:8080/htdocs/index.html worked which is some
progress.

I think my organization would prefer only http://localhost:8080

I am confused between the concepts appBase, docBase and path.
So given the directory structure below, what should be the values of
appBase, docBase and path so http://localhost:8080 looks for index.html
under htdocs.

Thanks again
Lakshmi



-----Original Message-----
From: Rashmi Rubdi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:04 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Tomcat deployment question

Hi Lakshmi,

Rename the context file from htdocs.xml to ROOT.xml then you should be
able to access the app at http://localhost:8080/

-Rashmi

-------------------Original posting by Lakshmi
-------------------------------------------
I have upgraded from Tomcat 3.3 to Tomcat 5.5.23.  It is running on
WinXP and I am using Java 1.5.

Here's my dierctory set up:

${Catalina.Home}
     -- conf
           -- Catalina
                 --localhost
                        htdocs.xml
     -- htdocs
           index.html
           --bin
           --html
           --jsp
           --css
           --jar
           --WEB-INF
                web.xml
                 --classes
                 --lib
     --webapps
                         
  
In server.xml, I modified the <Host> element to have {appBase="htdocs"
autoDeploy="false"}
I am using htdocs.xml in ${Catalina.home}/Catalina/localhost as the
context descriptor and is defined as follows:

 <Context docBase="${catalina.home}" override="true" privileged="true">
<Loader className="com.example.appClassLoader" reloadable="true"/>
    <!-- Default set of monitored resources -->
    <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
     <!-- Uncomment this to disable session persistence across Tomcat
restarts -->
       <Manager pathname="" />
    </Context>

Tomcat is able to load appClassLoader. However, when I type,
http://localhost:8080, it is not able to load
the index.html found under the htdocs directory.   If I create ROOT
directory and move the index.html over there it is able to load it. 
I guess, my main problem is how can I maintain the same directory
structure as above without having to create ROOT and move everything
below it?  The above directory structure worked in Tomcat 3.3.

What am I missing?

Thanks
Lakshmi
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