I havent found a better way than the tedious <%=request.getContextPath()%>
In your web.xml, you can specify other file extenstions that can get
compiled into a servlet
eg
<!-- lets the servlet container know that anything with a .css extension is
to be compiled into a jsp -->
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*.css</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<!-- lets the servlet container know that anything with a .js extension is
to be compiled into a jsp -->
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*.js</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of SCOTT FARQUHAR
Sent: Friday, 16 March 2001 9:17 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: offtopic: Path issues
When I have multiple web applications running on the one server - I'm having
problems referencing files in other directories.
eg - I can't use "/images/anImage.gif" because that references the document
root. I can use "<%= request.getContextPath() %>/images/anImage.gif" ,but
that gets tedious. Is there a better way to do it?
The other problem I have is referencing images from stylesheets and
javascript files. Because they don't go through the JSP processor, I can't
use request.getContextPath() . Without mapping .css and .js to the jsp
servlet - is there a way around this?
Also - with include files - are they always rooted from the web context
ie <@ include file="/includes/pageheader.jsp" %> —--> does this map to
http://myserver.com/mywebapp/includes/pageheader.jsp ?
Does the same go for <jsp:include page="/includes/pageheader.jsp" /> ?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Scott
