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From: "David Shreffler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <users@tomcat.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:04 PM
Subject: "webapps" on Network Drive?
I'm having difficulties with a Tomcat installation. I am a high school
teacher installing Tomcat in a computer lab. I want to have the Tomcat
binaries/config etc installed on the local drive, but essentially want the
"webapps" directory on students' network drive (mapped as their W: at
logon). To the best of my understanding, I should have to just simply
change the appBase attribute in the Host tag in server.xml. So it now
reads
appBase="W:/webapps", but Tomcat returns a blank page to the browser, no
errors in the logs. I move the webapps directory back within the local
Tomcat directory and change the configuration, I see the default Tomcat
installation page just fine. I've varied the appBase attribute with
forward- and backslashes, with and without ROOT etc. What should it be,
or
am I missing something else?
David, its absolutely no clear to me what you trying to do...
You want the kids to be able to make some HTML pages... and then look at
them in a browser... maybe?
If so what you doing is backwards... if you do get it right you have given
one kid power of webapps...
....never done it... but try this..
Install TC on your lecture machine... stock standard... dont mess with it...
Call your machine name EYEBALL
Then open the webapps folder for network sharing on your machine... give it
permissions
The kids all connect to it from "their" shares... so if they look at their W
drive, they see /webapps as W:\
They connecting to you.. you not connecting to them...
Then try this... make a simple webapp.... student.war
Rename it to...
Johnny.war
Suzie.war
Other_Terrorists.war
Now when they drop that into "their" W drive...
TC should make
W:\Johnny
W:\Suzie
Thats what they will see...
and in there... will be index.jsp etc...
They will all see each other dropping in...
Then they go into their folder and make HTML and JSP pages...
Or they can make WARS and drop them into W... as <TheirName>.war
From any students machine you will see the others... you can say, look at
Suzies HTML, thats right...
Something like that...
If they want to see their creation they type
http://EYEBALL/Johnny/test.html
etc....
Have fun...
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