creating a web instance

[md1750]

How do I create a web instance.

 

[pfist]

I'm not sure what a web instance is. Do you mean a web application??

If so then in Tomcat's webapps/ directory, create a new directory which be your web application. Under this app directory you also need a /WEB-INF/web.xml. Just use a copy of web.xml file from another web application.

So you have:
/myapp/
/myapp/WEB-INF/web.xml

your jsp files go in /myapp

Best Regards, pfist

 

[tassheloff]

Hi !!
You have to create a subdir of webapps.
In that subdir you must create a new subdir called WEB-INF in which you put a web.xml file (you can copy it giving a look from the one that is in other contexts like examples) and 2 dubdirs: lib and classes. In lib you will put your .jar files, in classes all your classes that are unpackaged.

Hi and bye

 

[anastasiatx]

What if you want this tomcat to contain one-and-only-one web appllication. If you want that application to be right under webapps directory can you simply have
webapps/index.jsp
webaps/WEB-INF folder
Can you put your web application classes (compiled servlets and other classes) in the TOMCATHOME lib directory?

Can anyone tell me if and why this is a BAD organization?

Thank.AA

 

[pfist]

You don't want to put content in the webapps/ directory. I looked at my setup using 4.1.12 and I can't see any reason why you couldn't just put your application in /ROOT web application. Then your application would show up as

http://hostname/

just as you want.

For my application using the default Tomcat distribution, I got rid of all the directories under webapps/ except ROOT/ and myApp/

( Note: you need to change the conf/server.xml to get rid of references to the examples/ application; or rename server-noexamples.xml.config file to server.xml )

To get to myApp/index.jsp when someone enters

http://hostname/,

I changed the /ROOT/index.jsp as follows:

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<%
response.sendRedirect( &quot;myApp/index.html&quot; );
%>
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This tells the browser to redirect to my application. For my setup, user then sees

http://hostname/myApp/index.jsp.

Putting the application in /ROOT would get rid of the myApp subdirectory. I don't know if there would be a problem with putting your application as ROOT. I can't see reason why it would be problem.

You could always try it and see what happens. Let me know how it goes.

Regards, pfist