RE: [WEB400] New System Development Tomcat Tuning

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I did just run into a very annoying issue with Tomcat 4.0 standalone.
Evidently, in days gone by you would specify something called "ServerRoot"
in your httpd.conf file, and any file that you accessed using java.io.File
and a relative path would ave this value prepended.  For example, if your
document root was "/www/apachetest" and you tried to open a file called
"mydir/file.ini", you would end up opening /www/apachetest/mydir/file.ini".

Evidently with Tomcat 4.0, there is no httpd.conf file.  Instead, the
configuration is done by a file called server.xml, but I have yet to be able
to find the equivalent to ServerRoot.  There is a document root, which is
used to prepend to URLs before fetching them, but that's a different beast.
I need to know how to configure the Tomcat equivalent of ServerRoot (I use
this to get my own system configuration files).

Today, if I use a relative path, it is always treated as relative to the
root.  Well, I don't want to be cluttering up the root of my IFS, and
besides, I want to be able to have multiple versions using different
directory structures.

Does anybody know where the equivalent to "ServerRoot" is for Tomcat
standalone?  Does anybody even understand my question, or am I just being
really nutty?

Joe