Can’t load html from Tomcat

[RollyS]

Hello. I’ve been studying this book about Tomcat. It asks me to change the appBase attribute of the <Host> tag in server.xml from webapps (the default) to a different folder so that my development is detached from Tomcat. So now the <Host> tag looks like this:

...
<Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="c:/_home/deploy/apps"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="false">
...

Besides the change in server.xml, the book also asks me to create a separate context XML descriptor file and put it in CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost. The descriptor file looks like this:

<Context path=”/unleashed” docBase=”unleashed” debug=”0”>
<Logger className=”org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger”
prefix=”localhost_unleashed_” suffix=”.log”
timestamp=”true”/>
</Context>

Besides that, admin.xml and manager.xml of CATALINA_HOME\conf\Catalina\localhost were also changed respectively:

<Context path=”/admin” docBase=”c:/_home/apps/tomcat5/server/webapps/admin”
debug=”0” privileged=”true”>
<Logger className=”org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger”
prefix=”localhost_admin_log.” suffix=”.txt”
timestamp=”true”/>
</Context>


<Context path=”/manager” docBase=”c:/_home/apps/tomcat5/server/webapps/manager”
debug=”0” privileged=”true”>
<ResourceLink name=”users” global=”UserDatabase”
type=”org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase”/>
</Context>

Everything seems to be going OK – I’ve been able to test my JSPs. But the problem came up when it’s time to test html: I couldn’t open a simple html file. Even the Tomcat’s homepage wouldn’t be loaded.

I tried a little experiment. I changed back the appBase attribute to webapps once again and I now I can see the Tomcat’s homepage but of course I cannot run my JSPs on the book.

Can somebody tell me what to do? Thanks in advance