tomcat w/ apache dir structure: really confused!!!

[gwu]

I want to create two web apps (app1 and app2) using apache and tomcat. I am a little confused on where to put certain files.

usually when using php I would put all files in:

/usr/local/apache/htdocs/app1
and
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/app2

each app is its own seperate entity

How does jsp work? Should all files(including the WEB-INF/ directories and servlets) go in:

/usr/local/apache/htdocs/app1
and
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/app2

Or should the WEB-INF/ directories and servlets stay in a seperate directory like:

/usr/local/jakarta/webapps/app1
and
/usr/local/apache/webapps/app2

thanks

 

[gwu]

let me clarify a little more. When I say webapp i really mean website. I would be hosting two websites on one machine. So:

/usr/local/apache/htdocs/

http://www.bank.com

/usr/local/apache/htdocs/

http://www.shoestore.com

/usr/local/jakarta/webapps/

http://www.bank.com

/usr/local/apache/webapps/

http://www.shoestore.com

is this correct? is each site considered a context or host in server.xml?

thanks again

 

[sedj]

You should put EACH webapp (separate website) under TOMCAT_HOME/webapps.

It a'int PHP , and it a'int apache. You in Java world now !!!

read this :

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/appdev/index.html

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[gwu]

I already read that doc but I still had some issues.

So I should have everything that has to do with each website in its respective directory, like so:

/usr/local/jakarta/webapps/

http://www.bank.com

/usr/local/jakarta/webapps/

http://www.shoestore.com

/usr/local/jakarta/webapps/localhost

When you say "webapp" you mean a seperate website/entity?

Would each weapp be defined as a seperate "host" or a seperate "context" in main server.xml file:

<Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">
<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps/localhost" />
<Host name="

http://www.shoestore.com"

appBase="webapps/shoestore" />
<Host name="

http://www.bank.com"

appBase="webapps/bank" />
</Engine>


how is that?

thanks

 

[sedj]

A webapp is a "web application" - ie it is all the code that goes to make up a website.

OK, so take your example websites "

http://www.bank.com"

and

http://www.shoestore.com".

First, the webapp code should be in :

TOMCAT_HOME/webapps .

So for example :

/usr/local/jakarta/webapps/bank
/usr/local/jakarta/webapps/shoestore

Then in server.xml, you need these entries :

      <Host name="[URL unfurl="true"]www.bank.com"[/URL] debug="0" appBase="webapps"
       unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
       xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
          <Context path="" docBase="bank" debug="0"
                   reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
         </Context>
      </Host>
      <Host name="[URL unfurl="true"]www.shoestore.com"[/URL] debug="0" appBase="webapps"
       unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
       xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
          <Context path="" docBase="shoestore" debug="0"
                   reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
         </Context>
      </Host>

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[gwu]

thats exactly what I wanted to know!!!! thank you sedj!!