> From: Eric P [mailto:eric.maill...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: Virtual host set-up woes > > But I only get an blank page for a simple index.jsp file
Indicative of a messed up configuration that doesn't have a default webapp. > $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml > <Host name="http:// dummy. com" appBase="dummyapps" The above is ok, assuming the spaces are in there just to keep the spam filter happy. > <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" > directory="logs" prefix="dummy_access_log" > suffix=".log" timestamp="true"/> There hasn't been a <Logger> element in Tomcat in many years; where did you get that from? Be wary of any "documentation" that doesn't come from the Tomcat web site - it's often out of date, and much of it is bogus. > /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.1 localhost dummy. com Good (except for the space, of course). > $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/dummyapps/ROOT.xml Where did you get that location for a <Context> element? It certainly didn't come from the docs, nor from Peter's or my messages. Go back and reread them all. To quote from Peter's message: > > create a file in $tomcathome/conf/Catalina/yourhost called ROOT.xml The name of your <Host> is? (It's certainly not dummyapps.) Tomcat would have completely ignored a file in the above location. > <Context> > <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource> > </Context> Does that look at all like the <Context> element Peter provided? To refresh your memory, here it is again (with the invalid path attribute removed): > > <Context docBase="$tomcathome/somewhereNotInTheAppbase/myapp.war" > > reloadable="true"> Note the presence of the docBase attribute and the comment therein. Also, it's pointless to have a <WatchedResource> of WEB-INF/web.xml in your <Context> element, since that value is already in the global one. If you have nothing to put in a <Context> element, you don't need one. > And the directory structure for the new context home (the content a > built/deployed app I copied over from its old location in /webapps). > $CATALINA_HOME/dummyapps > $CATALINA_HOME/dummyapps/WEB-INF > $CATALINA_HOME/dummyapps/index.jsp > $CATALINA_HOME/dummyapps/(other static files) Which is still very wrong. The appBase directory is the default location for all of a <Host>'s webapps - there can be many. The default webapp for a <Host> must be named ROOT (case sensitive), and is located either under the <Host> appBase directory, or where the <Context> docBase attribute points in the conf/Catalina/[host]/ROOT.xml file. Peter's message shows one way to achieve what you want, and facilitates the use of the same .war file or directory as the default one for each <Host> (the docBase attribute of all the ROOT.xml files would point to the same place). If in fact you want to use a different default webapp for each <Host>, you can separate them by the appBase setting of each <Host>, and not place the ROOT.xml file in conf/Catalina/[host]. In this scenario, your structure would be: host1apps/ROOT/ host1apps/ROOT/WEB-INF/ host1apps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/ host1apps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/ host1apps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml host1apps/ROOT/META-INF/ host1apps/ROOT/META-INF/context.xml host1apps/ROOT/index.jsp host1apps/ROOT/<anything else needed> host2apps/ROOT/ host2apps/ROOT/WEB-INF/ host2apps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/ host2apps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/ host2apps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml host2apps/ROOT/META-INF/ host2apps/ROOT/META-INF/context.xml host2apps/ROOT/index.jsp host2apps/ROOT/<anything else needed> ... The <Context> element for each webapp should be in the webapp's META-INF/context.xml file. Additional webapps (if any) for each <Host> would be placed in directories named for the webapp under host1apps, host2apps, etc. - 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
