Aaron Freeman said: > Ok, here's a stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hignorant newbie question. > > I have downloaded and installed the VelocityView tools as recommended. I > placed the simple.war file into my webapps directory and I used the URL: > http://<your_server>:<port>/simple/ as recommended by the documentation. > And the website returned properly.
glad to hear it. :) > The question is ... how the heck did the VelocityView servlet (a) get called > in the first place, and (b) know to dump index.vm? Neither index.vm or > VelocityServlet are part of the URL ... and I don't understand the web.xml > file. the web.xml is at the center of it all. :) this is really a newbie question about servlets in general and not velocity, so i'm not about to explain this all here. but i'll give you a link to one of the hundreds of docs on the internet that could help you here: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/appdev/index.html have fun! :) Nathan Bubna [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
