Hello Michael,

In a servlet environment I would recommed that you use a 
org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.WebappLoader

with the loader.path specified as you have it already.

Have a good week :)
Markos

On Sunday 20 February 2005 19:57, Michael Salmon wrote:
> Just a follow-up. I found that from where I launch tomcat is where it
> wants to load templates from. It seems clear to me my loader.path is not
> being setup correctly. For now until I have a better solution I'll just
> have to launch tomcat from my webapp root and put my templates there..
> Still I'd love to have a proper solution.
>
> thanks
> Michael
>
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 09:46:47AM -0800, Michael Salmon wrote:
> > hi folks
> >
> > I'm trying to get my development environment setup on freebsd and
> > templates don't load from where I want. In particular here is what
> > I'm doing:
> >
> > 1. servlet extends VelocityServlet. and calls Velocity.init(). I dont
> > override loadConfiguration()
> >
> > 2. In my webapp, web.xml I define the specific properties file:
> >     <param-name>org.apache.velocity.properties</param-name>
> >     <param-value>/WEB-INF/velocity.properties</param-value>
> >
> >     I'm pretty sure the right velocity.properties file is being loaded,
> >     because when I change the name it spits an error in the log.
> >
> > 4. In the properties file I define:
> >
> >     file.resource.loader.path = /WEB-INF/templates/
> >
> > 5. In my servlet I do:
> >     getTemplate("Test.vm");
> >
> >     /www/element/WEB-INF/templates/Test.vm - this file exists
> >
> > 6. catalina.log -
> > org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException: Unable to find
> > resource 'Test.vm'
> >
> >
> > 7. If I copy my template to /www/element/Test.vm velocity finds the
> > template, but I'd prefer not to keep my templates there. So any
> > suggestion to make it load from the location I want but obvoiusly am
> > setup wrong?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Michael
>
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