Awesome! That works. Thanks very much for your reply. I had already tried
"d:/web" but that didn't work (and IIRC, generated a Malformed URL message
from Orion) but after seeing your message I tried using a backslash and that
worked.
Incidentally, I was also having the same problem with my bean classpath.
My classpath section was originally :
<!-- Classpaths used by servlets and beans -->
<classpath>/jdev/src</classpath>
and it didn't work. I tried changing it to d:/jdev/src and that also
wouldn't work. Changing it to backslashes (d:\jdev\src) fixed it. This
seems like very odd behavior to me. It that's the intended behavior
(possibly because the spec says that's the way it's supposed to be) then you
(Orion) might want to very explicitly document it in the XML file because I
imagine lots of other users will have the same problem.
Thanks again for the response, Evan. It was very helpful.
Brien Voorhees
----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Vaala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Brien Voorhees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: Absolulte document root?
> Brien,
>
> I tried your scenario and was not able to get it to work either, however,
I
> tried the following, using the drive letter and backslash and it did work.
>
> <!-- Document root, root for the documents for this site -->
> <document-root>d:\web</document-root>
>
> Evan Vaala
>
>
>
>
> Brien Voorhees wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm trying to set up OrionServer and I have my html files in D:\WEB\ .
I
> > tried setting the document-root property in the web-site xml file to
"/web"
> > but it appears Orion thinks that's a relative path from default-site.
In
> > other words, instead of grabbing my index.html file from
D:\WEB\index.html
> > it's grabbing it from D:\ORION\DEFAULT_SITE\WEB\index.html. The
> > documentation (which I've included below) seems to indicate that
absolute
> > directories are valid. Has anyone else been able to get this to work?
> >
> > <document-root>./html</document-root>
> > Defines the relative/absolute directory to use as root for the served
> > pages.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brien Voorhees
> >
> > P.S. Please consider putting more work into the OrionServer
documentation.
> > I'm sure you guys are really busy building OrionServer and keeping up
with
> > the latest specs (and doing an impressive job at it, I might add) but
lots
> > of great features aren't very useful if potential users are discouraged
from
> > using your server because they can't figure out how to configure it or
get
> > the most out of it. More examples in the documentation would also be a
good
> > idea, IMHO. They say "a picture is worth a thousand words" but to me an
> > example or two can be worth ten thousand. :-)
>
