tomcat document root

[excession]

I've got:

tomcat 5 (c:\tomcat\Tomcat5)
apache 2 (c:\apache\Apache2)
html docs (c:\public)

I can set acpache to use the c:\public as a document root, but can't seem to get Tomcat to do the same, so in order to get jsp's working they have to be in the tomcat htdocs directory.

How do i configure the apache tomcat setup so that all documents are in c:\public (both static html and jsp)?

 

[sedj]

Configure your webapp context like this :

<Context path="/myWebapp" docbase="C:/public" debug="0" reloadable="true" />

This assumes that you have a dir called C:/public/myWebapp , which if it had an "index.html" file, the URL would be :

http://machineName:portNumber/myWebapp/index.html

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[excession]

this may sound like a daft question, but which file would that line be in? I'm trying to get a simple test jsp to work first before trying to deploy the main web app. It's just the date.jsp example provided with tomcat. I've put it in a folder c:\public\date but the url

http://localhost/date/date.jsp

doesn't work. I either get a tomcat 'not found' or apache serving the request (obviously with no jsp).

When I get the date.jsp working I'll try the full webapp

 

[sedj]

Add it in the <Host> section of server.xml

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[excession]

I still can't get this to work....
I've put the line
<Context path="/dates" docbase="C:/public/dates" debug="0" reloadable="true" />
in tomcats server.xml

If I try http:\\localhost\dates apache serves the request without the jsp working
If I try http:\\localhost:8080\dates tomcat returns with a 404-not found error.

If I try the http:\\localhost\jsp-examples then I get the jsp examples served by tomcat fine

Any ideas? If needbe I don't mind posting the conf files if that will help.

 

[sedj]

In my example above, I said the docbase was C:/public - not including the webapp name :

<Context path="/dates" docbase="C:/public" debug="0" reloadable="true" />

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[excession]

oops, sorry.

Even correcting that still has no effect

Somehow I seem to have something fundamentally wrong in the config, I must admit I'm a complete novice as far as apache/tomcat are concerned and I've just been following the howto guides I've found.

I've put an entry in the mod_jk.conf file :

# Static files 
    Alias /dates "C:/public/dates"

    <Directory "C:/public/dates">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.jsp 
    </Directory>


    # Deny direct access to WEB-INF and META-INF
    #
    <Location "/dates/WEB-INF/*">
        AllowOverride None
        deny from all
    </Location>

    <Location "/dates/META-INF/*">
        AllowOverride None
        deny from all
    </Location>
    #
    # Use Directory too. On Windows, Location doesn't work unless case matches
    #
    <Directory "C:/public/dates/WEB-INF/">
        AllowOverride None
        deny from all
    </Directory>

    <Directory "C:/public/dates/META-INF/">
        AllowOverride None
        deny from all
    </Directory>

    JkMount /dates  ajp13
    JkMount /detes/*.jsp  ajp13

and the line in server.xml now reads:

<Context path="/dates" docbase="C:/public" debug="0" reloadable="true" />

just after the line

<Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="webapps"
       unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
       xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">

Where am I going wrong?

 

[sedj]

Try :

<Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="C:/public"
		unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
		xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">

	<Context path="/date" debug="0" reloadable="true" />

</Host>

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[excession]

Still does not process the jsp pages. If anything things are worse, I now only get apache 404-not found errors and nothing from tomcat even if i specify the 8080 port, and tomcats home page (localhost:8080) is not found either (the service is running.

help!

 

[sedj]

Well tomcat's homepage wouldn't be found because that is in the default ROOT webapp - which I doubt is in C:/public .

I can assure you if C:/public/date is a proper webapp, then :

http://localhost:8080/date/whatever_your_jsp_is_called.jsp

will work.

But of course nothing else in TOMCAT_HOME/webapps is going to work, because you've just told Tomcat that all of its webapps for "localhost" are to be loaded from C:/public.

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[NullTerminator]

A host entry normally points to a document folder that has a ROOT folder. This would serve the default context; myhost.com/

In the host entry you can add a context /manager that points to the real (original) location of the webapps of the manager app; tomcat_home/server/webapps/manager. Then you can use the manager from the virtual host as well. (Same theory for /admin...)

Jeb Beasley
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