RE: [WEB400] New System Development Tomcat Tuning

["David Morris" <David.Morris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

Tomcat 4.0 follows the Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2 specifications
exactly and is the reference implementation. That is why you
won't find any "extensions". To specify a directory outside of
your webapps directory, you need to set up a context in your
server.xml file that is not relative like:

<Context path="myapp" docBase="/myapp" debug="0" />

The docBase does what you need. In this case a url like:

http://myhost:8080/myapp/index.jsp will take you to the file
/myapp/index.jsp in the IFS.

If you want you could use:

<Context path="" docBase="/myapp" debug="0" />
http://myhost:8080/index.jsp will take you to the file
/myapp/index.jsp in the IFS.

David Morris

>>> joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com 05/12/02 10:16PM >>>
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