that's how it was originally, I have changed it back to that and still the same problem. index.jsp works, but nothing else does, tomcat 404 error
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Jordan Michaels <jor...@viviotech.net> wrote: > Don't use context at all in there. Your localhost entry should be: > > <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" > unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" > xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false"> > </Host> > > .. and that's it. Unless you deliberately want your default site to be the > same as your IIS default site. > > Restart the tomcat service after you update the server.xml with the default > loclahost entry, then hit your server at localhost:8888/index.jsp to get the > default tomcat home page. You will be able to reach the rest of the tomcat > apps from there. > > Warm regards, > Jordan Michaels > > On 09/08/2011 01:40 PM, Russ Michaels wrote: >> >> tried that didn.t work. >> >> On a working server, my localhost entry is >> >> <Context docBase="%SystemDrive%/inetpub/wwwroot"> >> <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource> >> </Context> >> >> and lochost:8888 gets me into the tomcat admin and it all works >> >> the non working server had the exact same entry, and I tried changing >> it to point to the c:\railo\tomcat\webapps\root >> >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Jordan Michaels<jor...@viviotech.net> >> wrote: >>>> >>>> I have already tried the Railo forums and been told to come here as it >>>> is a problem with Tomcat and not Railo. >>> >>> What? Link it, or it didn't happen. >>> >>> Check your localhost mapping in the Tomcat server.xml file. Make sure >>> it's >>> pointing to the Tomcat webapps/ROOT/ folder. Some earlier Railo builds >>> update the default to point to the IIS root. The idea was to not confuse >>> the >>> IIS folks because their IIS webroot didn't match their Tomcat webroot, >>> but >>> that practice ended up causing just as much confusion as it solved - like >>> in >>> your case. >>> >>> Make sure the "localhost" server.xml mapping points to the tomcat >>> webapps/ROOT/ directory and you should be set to use the Tomcat webapps. >>> >>> Warm regards, >>> Jordan Michaels >>> >>> On 09/08/2011 12:57 PM, Russ Michaels wrote: >>>> >>>> I have already tried the Railo forums and been told to come here as it >>>> is a problem with Tomcat and not Railo. >>>> I think the only difference is the install path, it is put in >>>> c:\railo\tomcat rather than c:\tomcat, so lets just work on that >>>> assumption, i'm sure i'll find out pretty quick if that is not the >>>> case. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:31 PM,<ma...@apache.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Russ Michaels<r...@michaels.me.uk> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Christopher Schultz< >>>>>> ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>>>> Hash: SHA1 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Russ, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 9/8/2011 11:44 AM, Russ Michaels wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ok I have an Apache Tomcat installed via the Railo installer from >>>>>>>> www.getrailo.org >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Why not download directly from apache.org? >>>>>>> >>>>>> I use the railo installer so we have a standard configuration and >>>>>> setup >>>>>> across all server that is officially supported. >>>>> >>>>> Time to make use of that official support then as we have no idea what >>>>> changes Railo may have made to the standard Tomcat distribution from >>>>> the >>>>> ASF. >>>>> >>>>> Mark >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >>> >>> >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- -- Russ Michaels www.bluethunderinternet.com : Business hosting services & solutions www.cfmldeveloper.com : ColdFusion developer community www.michaels.me.uk : my blog www.cfsearch.com : ColdFusion search engine skype me : russmichaels --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org