Dustin, Thanks for verifying this.
Its odd that so few people have noticed this. I guess perhaps everyone just uses apache as a front end. But for me setting up apache on linux is just another headache since I am not familiar with it, so I really dont want to introduce any new complexities. So what I am doing now is just manually copying the files out of the folder before I build war files. But this is really annoying. I guess if I switch to ant for building my war's this could be automated. Regards Hank On 11/4/06, Dustin Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, this one is annoying. I don't use the Compile locally option just > because of this issue. I have it compile on the server. Definately > something that should be filed with Adobe though. I keep meaning to file a > wish request for this, I'll make some time to do that today. > > Dustin Mercer > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com on behalf of hank williams > Sent: Sat 11/4/2006 5:44 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Structuring a collection of Flex apps in a > tomcat webapps folder > > > > Ok, looking at this somemore, I think this is most likely a design bug > in flex builder. > > There is no reason for flex builder to prevent the user from > specifying any folder he likes for the build output. For FDS > applications, it seems the flex builder is limited to generating > compiler output in a folder that is inside the web application > folder. While the intentions are good, FDS should certainly not > prevent the user from placing the output in root of the web > application folder and not in a folder inside the web application > folder. > > in other words flexbuilder will build this > > webapps > mywebappfolder > myflexappfolder > yada.html > yada.swf > > but flexbuilder will not build this: > > webapps > mywebappfolder > yada.html > yada.swf > > which makes it very hard to make an app domain > www.appname.com > > instead of > www.appname.com/somefoldername > > without apache or some other indirection > > Regards > Hank > > On 11/4/06, hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:hank777%40gmail.com> > > wrote: > > It sounds like you are letting FDS compile for you on the server. I am > > compiling on the client. > > To restate, hopefully, more clearly my problem, it is as follows: > > > > I want my swf and html output files to be inside: > > webapps/<serlvet-name> > > > > instead of: > > webapps/<serlvet-name>/<flex-app-name> > > > > I am not able to get flexbuilder to do this. The place to do it would > > be in the properties panel for the flex-app->Flex Build Path -> output > > folder. > > > > But the dialog requires me to enter a folder name which will be placed > > inside the <servlet-name> folder. When I try to leave this field > > blank, which would, conceptually, achieve the goal because the screen > > states that the path is relative to <servlet-name>, flex builder > > generates an error. Entering a full path i.e. C:\..., I dont get the > > error, but flexbuilder refuses to compile the app. > > > > The reason I want to do this is so that my url does not need to be > > > > www.somedomain.com/flex-app-name > > > > Thanks > > Hank > > > > > > > > How > > On 11/2/06, Nick Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:nick%40cassiel.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > On 1 Nov 2006, at 22:22, hank williams wrote: > > > > > > > I dont see how you avoid this since servlet containers require that > > > > the WEB-INF folder be in the root directory of the application, but > > > > this is not how flex structures things. With Flex/FDS there is the > > > > your webapp directory which is inside webapps, and then a sub > > > > directory, for the flex application > > > > > > I'm not sure I follow. I have FDS in Tomcat configured with > > > > > > webapps/<MY APPLICATION>/WEB-INF/ (and then flex/, lib/ etc.) > > > > > > and > > > > > > webapps/<MY APPLICATION>/<mxml files> > > > > > > and the context prefix is <MY APPLICATION>. > > > > > > In any case, I tend to solve URL mapping issues by bolting Apache on > > > the front of the app and using the reverse proxy module... > > > > > > -- N. > > > > > > > > > nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http:// > > > www.cassiel.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Flexcoders Mailing List > > > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > > > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt> > > > Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > > > <http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > > Yahoo! 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