Some of the path issues should be resolved with the latest snapshot [1,2]: * web:redirect will now resolve absolute paths against the name of a web app (if there is one) * root requests without trailing slash will be redirected to the same address with trailing slash
I still need your help with fn:static-base-uri, though; I couldn't reproduce it on our machines so far.. Christian [1] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest [2] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues/1026 On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Christian Grün <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the hints. Once again it seems we would need to spend more > time on the deployment with Tomcat. I have reopened an old issue for > that [1]. Feedback from other users is welcome, too. > >> 1) web:redirect() doesn't work with absolute paths, they instead strip off >> the Tomcat webapp name from the url. >> For example, my BaseX lives in a webapp called BaseX811, so the base-url I >> have, is ```http://something:port/BaseX811```. >> But doing ```web:redirect('/dba')``` redirects to a url with the webapp name >> and port chopped off, e.g http://something/dba > > I'll see if the webapp name can be embedded if the specified URL is > not relative.. > >> 2) The file module behaves strangely: >> ```file:current-dir()``` returns on my development setup (fedora) >> "/usr/share/tomcat/" which is a symbolic link on my system to the Tomcat >> webapps folder. > > This is in some way correct, because the "current directory" is always > defined by the application (usually the JVM) that is starting BaseX. > In other words, it's advisable not to use current-dir() in web > applications. > >> ```file:base-dir()``` returns on my development box the BaseX webapp folder >> e.g "/usr/share/tomcat/webapps/BaseX811/" (hurray!) but on my production >> setup it returns the empty string! > > Hm, so it seems that the base URI cannot be resolved to a local file > system directory. Could you please check (e.g. in the Queries panel of > the DBA) what is returned by "static-base-uri()" ? > > Please keep us informed if you should encounter some more > irregularities when using Tomcat. > > Best, > Christian > > [1] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues/1026
