Re: virtual directory
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tommy, On 3/21/13 5:00 PM, Tommy Pham wrote: Silly me... I figured out what was the issue. I didn't have the index page defined in Tomcat's web.xml within the D:\wwwroot. The eventual content of this folder will be images anyway. Would I need to code an interceptor to detect 404 error and path to redirect the visitor to another URL instead of Tomcat's default 404 error? I would just configure an error-page in web.xml like usual. - -chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRTN40AAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYcYoP/18xFmCLD04KOyGoge2uhjYw xB6TWT/VHf5pPGk9xY2TJp+nkkIfGiKwPqCovAemV/JdzAYXocsx3P/cbt0Jvzw7 ltVk+Y1non8o6KhrlxAsXpObLYcZzhnLpkefkHIp3awYIwzrgVi4k1GTIKucozzs 4/7QWAjCznxdL0WJln6eJ//pgwOfaSpuNGbXocjY00vy3R3cBveQ94YaxzoyTKvy s85ubbMSZtvbufof2thvO3c+GWWRRyJpaYCrQZ2Sw0TpUBBj78D3jknenAHssfat R1qtFi2K0HT2SNHfloYOzgmAyjnpbdOMU6QNXkdc4ckjQzRVO9PczOgj+VMx9h8c gB4jFzBZFja9i/u9GwR2mBjHJBM1kCjDdfD7Oi0mgj4Mg17CHUGcU4DF9NWJ9Cfb TMYbNHK53QxFm1Bjb4JiVERdPf1x9UfRg8uv7XResUXTmUHg3Rv/hoMdW4JPN+GZ oPEc0VcGGz+qXexOoSdgvTqBEOOGvIhl0wcy5j9zh0O7p2fQFx8RcsFQj88hlkGq UzY/DvWzviErDRGS1FIOCzALnZ2KeRI0uWdAW0nMqXq7X/gATfmnpVakfEtBILUH Vag9KCQBWWcqynrOy1Svo5vwjuz31CU+Cb8hBruSzF1+9Ei+QG85HVdwjjAxEsTS SEYdeu5+Y3QGeEi41zrN =cdDP -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
Re: virtual directory
Tommy Pham wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to setup my virtual directory wwwroot as
http://localhost/wwwroot/ mapped to d:\wwwroot but I'm getting
HTTP Status 404 - /wwwroot/
type Status report
message /wwwroot/
description The requested resource (/wwwroot/) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/7.0.26
My wwwroot.xml:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1?
Context path=/wwwroot docBase=D:/wwwroot debug=0 privileged=true
/Context
and the localhost log:
Mar 21, 2013 10:14:38 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.26
Mar 21, 2013 10:14:38 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor
INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor
D:\apache-tomcat-7.0.26\conf\Catalina\localhost\wwwroot.xml
Mar 21, 2013 10:14:38 AM
org.apache.catalina.startup.SetContextPropertiesRule begin
WARNING: [SetContextPropertiesRule]{Context} Setting property 'debug'
to '0' did not find a matching property.
Mar 21, 2013 10:14:39 AM org.apache.catalina.util.SessionIdGenerator
createSecureRandom
INFO: Creation of SecureRandom instance for session ID generation
using [SHA1PRNG] took [145] milliseconds.
Mar 21, 2013 10:14:39 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory D:\apache-tomcat-7.0.26\webapps\docs
Did I misread the doc [1]?
Thanks,
Tommy
[1] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html
Well, you seem to have.
path : This attribute must only be used when statically defining a Context in server.xml.
In all other circumstances, the path will be inferred from the filenames used for either
the .xml context file or the docBase.
debug : doesn't exist, as your log messages indicate
privileged : are you sure ?
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Re: virtual directory
To publish your wwwdoc directory you must edit sever.xml and look for Host
tag. Inside this block write a line like::
Context docBase=D:/wwwroot path=/wwwroot reloadable=true /
Don't use debug as André says
:)
Un abrazo
2013/3/21 André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com
Tommy Pham wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to setup my virtual directory wwwroot as
http://localhost/wwwroot/ mapped to d:\wwwroot but I'm getting
HTTP Status 404 - /wwwroot/
type Status report
message /wwwroot/
description The requested resource (/wwwroot/) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/7.0.26
My wwwroot.xml:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1?
Context path=/wwwroot docBase=D:/wwwroot debug=0 privileged=true
/Context
and the localhost log:
Mar 21, 2013 10:14:38 AM org.apache.catalina.core.**StandardEngine
startInternal
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.26
Mar 21, 2013 10:14:38 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.**HostConfig
deployDescriptor
INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor
D:\apache-tomcat-7.0.26\conf\**Catalina\localhost\wwwroot.xml
Mar 21, 2013 10:14:38 AM
org.apache.catalina.startup.**SetContextPropertiesRule begin
WARNING: [SetContextPropertiesRule]{**Context} Setting property 'debug'
to '0' did not find a matching property.
Mar 21, 2013 10:14:39 AM org.apache.catalina.util.**SessionIdGenerator
createSecureRandom
INFO: Creation of SecureRandom instance for session ID generation
using [SHA1PRNG] took [145] milliseconds.
Mar 21, 2013 10:14:39 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.**HostConfig
deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory D:\apache-tomcat-7.0.26\**
webapps\docs
Did I misread the doc [1]?
Thanks,
Tommy
[1]
http://tomcat.apache.org/**tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.**htmlhttp://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html
Well, you seem to have.
path : This attribute must only be used when statically defining a Context
in server.xml. In all other circumstances, the path will be inferred from
the filenames used for either the .xml context file or the docBase.
debug : doesn't exist, as your log messages indicate
privileged : are you sure ?
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Re: virtual directory
Manuel Fernández Panzuela wrote: To publish your wwwdoc directory you must edit sever.xml and look for Host tag. Inside this block write a line like:: Context docBase=D:/wwwroot path=/wwwroot reloadable=true / Hi. Don't top-post. And the page which the original poster apparently mis-read, also says (in bold) : It is NOT recommended to place Context elements directly in the server.xml file. https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
Re: virtual directory
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tommy, On 3/21/13 1:23 PM, Tommy Pham wrote: I'm trying to setup my virtual directory wwwroot as http://localhost/wwwroot/ mapped to d:\wwwroot but I'm getting HTTP Status 404 - /wwwroot/ type Status report message /wwwroot/ description The requested resource (/wwwroot/) is not available. Apache Tomcat/7.0.26 My wwwroot.xml: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1? Context path=/wwwroot docBase=D:/wwwroot debug=0 privileged=true /Context I would have expected this to work, though you should take André's suggestions and clean-up that file. What is in D:\wwwroot? Where did you put wwwroot.xml? - -chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRS1kaAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYLL0P/0ThqoCuRoep+QJFHsYHdGWS 5QUpzPBXrvG9o1oEdnUJrz1/Y854waF/XzvTNYFKDyeFvkD2M3TV610vwcEB7A2v /8CPZAuB56084TYU6MbJkwivOkUPBPEphLjrkMavuNYlfVH8Mifp7d4ZwKJ7mwJz xGly9NeqfzyVjXXxjwn8FGxvlnqLxcZyTwxvleiDnllk7HxXrfx1a9+ELpU8l+A0 Tzmn87hNmNrdpwqfJ8g3EKH/r6bitRYhqDld2Q/agzNDmPLiYwby7HWg3Tmh3gfK MQkQekYhp3kY48VhrNI1g79+m4Pt0LJQaCElwe+GaYkX3lZLB2TR61EVUG9V31b2 cRcCqgbnBbfYHOREvC+FTb5URUmrXgG9/5NZ/t/EaHSsHlArOWCSSS/g8cDL9NjE pSDF4elWrclUGHzcPKE9p925/lMRHWDC9NpBf97o+z2SIPzBufeFSZ8AxKHlO6Yj Ytb0geE3I3hiuSfdYq668gvMV+UA6+fhZ7CZHdSCM9Ul3YSf8xAJQE1B1csghF+0 zHwZTFR3K2dXUwm7InqscmSUh/I+94fBs7m2z6aQ3BuKCF7dZeycROoddu8YJucw 1byxSWRtnIU1FQbzT62Fufbb6y5ycbrw8j/jptJ9XU14I/2l7GDO5Y0aelkrh84n VUB5SVTZs3Hgevz2k4Of =YHLS -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
Re: virtual directory
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:10 AM, André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com wrote: Manuel Fernández Panzuela wrote: To publish your wwwdoc directory you must edit sever.xml and look for Host tag. Inside this block write a line like:: Context docBase=D:/wwwroot path=/wwwroot reloadable=true / Hi. Don't top-post. And the page which the original poster apparently mis-read, also says (in bold) : It is NOT recommended to place Context elements directly in the server.xml file. https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html Hi André, Thanks for the feedback. I'm still getting the 404 error with this wwwroot.xml: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1? Context docBase=D:/wwwroot /Context And the catalina log shows:Mar 21, 2013 11:46:27 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.26 Mar 21, 2013 11:46:27 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor D:\apache-tomcat-7.0.26\conf\Catalina\localhost\wwwroot.xml Mar 21, 2013 11:46:28 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory INFO: Deploying web application directory D:\apache-tomcat-7.0.26\webapps\docs Mar 21, 2013 11:46:28 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory INFO: Deploying web application directory D:\apache-tomcat-7.0.26\webapps\examples Thanks, Tommy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
Re: virtual directory
Tommy Pham wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:10 AM, André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com wrote: Manuel Fernández Panzuela wrote: To publish your wwwdoc directory you must edit sever.xml and look for Host tag. Inside this block write a line like:: Context docBase=D:/wwwroot path=/wwwroot reloadable=true / Hi. Don't top-post. And the page which the original poster apparently mis-read, also says (in bold) : It is NOT recommended to place Context elements directly in the server.xml file. https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html Hi André, Thanks for the feedback. I'm still getting the 404 error with this wwwroot.xml: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1? Context docBase=D:/wwwroot /Context And the catalina log shows:Mar 21, 2013 11:46:27 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.26 Mar 21, 2013 11:46:27 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor D:\apache-tomcat-7.0.26\conf\Catalina\localhost\wwwroot.xml Mar 21, 2013 11:46:28 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory INFO: Deploying web application directory D:\apache-tomcat-7.0.26\webapps\docs Mar 21, 2013 11:46:28 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory INFO: Deploying web application directory D:\apache-tomcat-7.0.26\webapps\examples Like Christopher, I would have expected this to work. So, a few stupid questions (but one never knows) : - is there actually something in D:\wwwroot ? if yes, what ? - is your browser (window) opened on the same host as where you have tomcat installed ? - is it this tomcat that is listening on port 80 ? - do you have more than 1 (uncommented) Host in your server.xml ? - can you call up http://localhost/docs ? - what happens if you copy what is now in D:\wwwroot, to D:\apache-tomcat-7.0.26\webapps\wwwroot ? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
RE: virtual directory
From: Tommy Pham [mailto:tommy...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: virtual directory I'm still getting the 404 error with this wwwroot.xml: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1? Context docBase=D:/wwwroot /Context In addition to the questions André asked, one very critical one: where is that wwwroot.xml file located? - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
Re: virtual directory
Hi Chuck and Andre, Silly me... I figured out what was the issue. I didn't have the index page defined in Tomcat's web.xml within the D:\wwwroot. The eventual content of this folder will be images anyway. Would I need to code an interceptor to detect 404 error and path to redirect the visitor to another URL instead of Tomcat's default 404 error? Thanks for your time, Tommy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
Re: virtual directory
Just thought of a another way to map files... and I think it may work out better... but dont ask me how to set it up I've forgotten... because linux never breaks. Try Samba on linux, it allows you to map the linux file system to windows. So the windows guys will be working with files just like they normally do... but those files actually live on the linux server now if you symlink on linux, windows will just think its the normal file system. I like this more because I know it works and it means you also have the test case running on linux... ie if you stick tomcat on linux, the changes on windows will just happen there as well Samba... its better... no daring technology on MS thats always going to be a headache to maintain. - Original Message - From: Johnny Kewl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:12 PM Subject: Re: virtual directory I dont know... I think you have be spoilt by linux windows shortcuts just dont equal linux soft links... hey! :) I see what you saying even if say you made a little servlet that could suck files from anywhere, how does the calling program see shell folders, I suppose you could make the URL mimic files like http://myMagicFileSucker/filesystem/subfolder but its never going to be enough to make a normal java program think its a folder. I think if you had linux links on windows, it would make you happy... and guess what, its possible but MS doesnt advertise it because there are a few things a normal user can do that can really screw things up. Have a look at a free solution and have a look at microsofts solution... they call linux links... junction points. Free solution http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm Microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/kb/205524 You will be able to map external folders to a tomcat webapp folder... I think this is a kludge of last resort and I wouldnt recommend it to any1 unless there is absolutely no other way. Make sure your programmers really understand things like if they delete a junction point in explorer... weird stuff can happen because the ms file explorer doesnt know what these things are. Whew!... just be careful... I'm thinking about stuff like tomcats auto deployment... I mean if that whacks the folders before it makes new ones, and it probably does... some programmers files somewhere else will get whacked if you drop another WAR file in... ha ha, but then hey I suppose that should also happen on linux links... anyway test it carefully. have fun I'm putting on my bullet proof vest, and changing my name... so you will never find me again ha ha. - Original Message - From: Sylvain Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:16 PM Subject: Re: virtual directory Hi Johnny, hi everybody I took the images example to explain and simplify the problem, but actually I may need to include different contents, which may be static - like images, flash animations, html pages - but may also be jsp pages for exemple, and some of these contents are likely to be generated by another web application. This works fine for years with oc4j / orion, so we would rather have the lesser to change before we can switch oc4j for tomcat. In fact if we can't manage to do that, it may be a reason to discard tomcat from our choice list, because some part of our application relies on virtual directories. Best regards Sylvain At 10:14 11/04/2007, Johnny Kewl wrote: Hi sylvian When developing I do this request.getContextPath() + uri; but I wrap the request.getContextPath() in a little routine like say imageMap(String uri) and use that in my JSP's Thats cool because if I change the context path the app doesnt break... BUT... I do it for a much better reason. When I'm done making a Tomcat app I move all the images to the Apache server... And then just change imageMap(String uri) to point to the Apache Web server url... Apache Web Srvr is damn good at delivering images and Tomcat speeds up nicely when you do this. I actually cant believe that people use cross context stuff for images if you dont want to use apache, the you could make a single webapp, dump all your images in there, and just address that in your other apps, http://myImageTomcatServer/image/xxx.jpg Let the browser join the images for you... if you have a look at web pages you will often see the images come from a different server... like look at web counters for example. Heres another example if I make a captcha generator (you know those little images that have numbers in them) then I make a seperate servlet called CapchaGen.jpg and in my other apps I call that URL image appears in the browser. What document is this that you talking about... sucking images from other webApps through context sharing... sounds crazy? Good luck
Re: virtual directory
Hi sylvian When developing I do this request.getContextPath() + uri; but I wrap the request.getContextPath() in a little routine like say imageMap(String uri) and use that in my JSP's Thats cool because if I change the context path the app doesnt break... BUT... I do it for a much better reason. When I'm done making a Tomcat app I move all the images to the Apache server... And then just change imageMap(String uri) to point to the Apache Web server url... Apache Web Srvr is damn good at delivering images and Tomcat speeds up nicely when you do this. I actually cant believe that people use cross context stuff for images if you dont want to use apache, the you could make a single webapp, dump all your images in there, and just address that in your other apps, http://myImageTomcatServer/image/xxx.jpg Let the browser join the images for you... if you have a look at web pages you will often see the images come from a different server... like look at web counters for example. Heres another example if I make a captcha generator (you know those little images that have numbers in them) then I make a seperate servlet called CapchaGen.jpg and in my other apps I call that URL image appears in the browser. What document is this that you talking about... sucking images from other webApps through context sharing... sounds crazy? Good luck [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Sylvain Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:23 PM Subject: virtual directory Hi this seems a very classical problem for tomcat users, but I couldn't find on the web a solution which satisfies me. We plan to host multiple applications, on a tomcat box. These applications may all need an images directory. But of course each of them has a different images directory. What we want to do is to deploy different versions of each application, without the need to move the images. The crosscontext context solution, which is the one given everywhere, does not correspond to our need, because, as far as I tried it - I may need an unknow depth for the point I will make the link, for example, it could be /images/layout/DE_de - I need to have a mapping inside my web-app, ie inside the context rather than at the same level - when I read the doc, it seems to me that this is a workaround, a misuse of something that was made for being able to dispatch requests to another application - what I want is only to link something out of my application deployment path as if it was inside. I don't know if it is wise to rely on this workaround for long term - the same mapping (/images) has to be different for each application basically this is what is performed on Oracle's OC4J with the virtual-directory directive, on weblogic with virtual-directory-mapping. Actually I found some kind of virtual directory on every j2ee server but tomcat. I can't imagine that this problem has no solution other than the cross context. I may have missed something, but where ? Best regards Sylvain - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: virtual directory
Hi Johnny, hi everybody I took the images example to explain and simplify the problem, but actually I may need to include different contents, which may be static - like images, flash animations, html pages - but may also be jsp pages for exemple, and some of these contents are likely to be generated by another web application. This works fine for years with oc4j / orion, so we would rather have the lesser to change before we can switch oc4j for tomcat. In fact if we can't manage to do that, it may be a reason to discard tomcat from our choice list, because some part of our application relies on virtual directories. Best regards Sylvain At 10:14 11/04/2007, Johnny Kewl wrote: Hi sylvian When developing I do this request.getContextPath() + uri; but I wrap the request.getContextPath() in a little routine like say imageMap(String uri) and use that in my JSP's Thats cool because if I change the context path the app doesnt break... BUT... I do it for a much better reason. When I'm done making a Tomcat app I move all the images to the Apache server... And then just change imageMap(String uri) to point to the Apache Web server url... Apache Web Srvr is damn good at delivering images and Tomcat speeds up nicely when you do this. I actually cant believe that people use cross context stuff for images if you dont want to use apache, the you could make a single webapp, dump all your images in there, and just address that in your other apps, http://myImageTomcatServer/image/xxx.jpg Let the browser join the images for you... if you have a look at web pages you will often see the images come from a different server... like look at web counters for example. Heres another example if I make a captcha generator (you know those little images that have numbers in them) then I make a seperate servlet called CapchaGen.jpg and in my other apps I call that URL image appears in the browser. What document is this that you talking about... sucking images from other webApps through context sharing... sounds crazy? Good luck [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Sylvain Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:23 PM Subject: virtual directory Hi this seems a very classical problem for tomcat users, but I couldn't find on the web a solution which satisfies me. We plan to host multiple applications, on a tomcat box. These applications may all need an images directory. But of course each of them has a different images directory. What we want to do is to deploy different versions of each application, without the need to move the images. The crosscontext context solution, which is the one given everywhere, does not correspond to our need, because, as far as I tried it - I may need an unknow depth for the point I will make the link, for example, it could be /images/layout/DE_de - I need to have a mapping inside my web-app, ie inside the context rather than at the same level - when I read the doc, it seems to me that this is a workaround, a misuse of something that was made for being able to dispatch requests to another application - what I want is only to link something out of my application deployment path as if it was inside. I don't know if it is wise to rely on this workaround for long term - the same mapping (/images) has to be different for each application basically this is what is performed on Oracle's OC4J with the virtual-directory directive, on weblogic with virtual-directory-mapping. Actually I found some kind of virtual directory on every j2ee server but tomcat. I can't imagine that this problem has no solution other than the cross context. I may have missed something, but where ? Best regards Sylvain - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: virtual directory
On 4/11/07, Sylvain Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I took the images example to explain and simplify the problem, but Regardless, I don't understand what you're trying to do -- do you want to have e.g. example.com/foo/images example.com/bar/images where 'images' points to the same content? If so, you could handle that via symlinks. If it's something else, maybe you can provide a different example... -- Hassan Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: virtual directory
The symlink solution could work, except that it is not what I want to do. The production application is hosted on linux servers, but we also have to deal with the developpers' computers, which runs windows What I need basically il to have a subdirectory of my webapp located somewhere else on my disk ie app = /srv/webapp/myapp META-INF WEB-INF classes lib publication = /srv/webapp/publication images resources = /srv/webapp/resources index.jsp ... where /srv/webapp/publication and /srv/webapp/resources are not really subdirectories of /srv/webapp/myapp, but are seen like they were by the application Actually on oc4j, I can get the real path with ServletContext.getRealPath(String path); where path is for example /WEB-INF/publication At 17:09 11/04/2007, Hassan Schroeder wrote: On 4/11/07, Sylvain Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I took the images example to explain and simplify the problem, but Regardless, I don't understand what you're trying to do -- do you want to have e.g. example.com/foo/images example.com/bar/images where 'images' points to the same content? If so, you could handle that via symlinks. If it's something else, maybe you can provide a different example... -- Hassan Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: virtual directory
On 4/11/07, Sylvain Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The symlink solution could work, except that it is not what I want to do. The production application is hosted on linux servers, but we also have to deal with the developpers' computers, which runs windows That's fixable :-) What I need basically il to have a subdirectory of my webapp located somewhere else on my disk Given that webapps are supposed to be self-contained, I'm not surprised Tomcat doesn't provide such a facility... Actually on oc4j ..nor am I surprised that oc4j does, but let's not go there :-) If it were me, I'd consider just using your build system to make copies of those directories, in the short term at least. Good luck, -- Hassan Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I dont know... I think you have be spoilt by linux windows shortcuts just dont equal linux soft links... hey! :) I see what you saying even if say you made a little servlet that could suck files from anywhere, how does the calling program see shell folders, I suppose you could make the URL mimic files like http://myMagicFileSucker/filesystem/subfolder but its never going to be enough to make a normal java program think its a folder. I think if you had linux links on windows, it would make you happy... and guess what, its possible but MS doesnt advertise it because there are a few things a normal user can do that can really screw things up. Have a look at a free solution and have a look at microsofts solution... they call linux links... junction points. Free solution http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm Microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/kb/205524 You will be able to map external folders to a tomcat webapp folder... I think this is a kludge of last resort and I wouldnt recommend it to any1 unless there is absolutely no other way. Make sure your programmers really understand things like if they delete a junction point in explorer... weird stuff can happen because the ms file explorer doesnt know what these things are. Whew!... just be careful... I'm thinking about stuff like tomcats auto deployment... I mean if that whacks the folders before it makes new ones, and it probably does... some programmers files somewhere else will get whacked if you drop another WAR file in... ha ha, but then hey I suppose that should also happen on linux links... anyway test it carefully. have fun I'm putting on my bullet proof vest, and changing my name... so you will never find me again ha ha. - Original Message - From: Sylvain Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:16 PM Subject: Re: virtual directory Hi Johnny, hi everybody I took the images example to explain and simplify the problem, but actually I may need to include different contents, which may be static - like images, flash animations, html pages - but may also be jsp pages for exemple, and some of these contents are likely to be generated by another web application. This works fine for years with oc4j / orion, so we would rather have the lesser to change before we can switch oc4j for tomcat. In fact if we can't manage to do that, it may be a reason to discard tomcat from our choice list, because some part of our application relies on virtual directories. Best regards Sylvain At 10:14 11/04/2007, Johnny Kewl wrote: Hi sylvian When developing I do this request.getContextPath() + uri; but I wrap the request.getContextPath() in a little routine like say imageMap(String uri) and use that in my JSP's Thats cool because if I change the context path the app doesnt break... BUT... I do it for a much better reason. When I'm done making a Tomcat app I move all the images to the Apache server... And then just change imageMap(String uri) to point to the Apache Web server url... Apache Web Srvr is damn good at delivering images and Tomcat speeds up nicely when you do this. I actually cant believe that people use cross context stuff for images if you dont want to use apache, the you could make a single webapp, dump all your images in there, and just address that in your other apps, http://myImageTomcatServer/image/xxx.jpg Let the browser join the images for you... if you have a look at web pages you will often see the images come from a different server... like look at web counters for example. Heres another example if I make a captcha generator (you know those little images that have numbers in them) then I make a seperate servlet called CapchaGen.jpg and in my other apps I call that URL image appears in the browser. What document is this that you talking about... sucking images from other webApps through context sharing... sounds crazy? Good luck [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Sylvain Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:23 PM Subject: virtual directory Hi this seems a very classical problem for tomcat users, but I couldn't find on the web a solution which satisfies me. We plan to host multiple applications, on a tomcat box. These applications may all need an images directory. But of course each of them has a different images directory. What we want to do is to deploy different versions of each application, without the need to move the images. The crosscontext context solution, which is the one given everywhere, does not correspond to our need, because, as far as I tried it - I may need an unknow depth for the point I will make the link, for example, it could be /images/layout/DE_de - I need to have a mapping inside my web-app, ie inside the context rather than
RE: Virtual Directory
From: sumesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Virtual Directory How can I create a Virtual Directory in Apache Tomcat? I have installed tomcat in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1 and I have some Tutorials in E:\Tutorial .I want to publish the same using the same Web Server.How can I do that You could start by actually reading the answers that have been posted during the last couple of days. Sending the same message four times is rather annoying, more so when you've already been given the answer. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Tim Lucia wrote: Add a file, Tutorial.xml, to your C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1\webapps\ directory. It should contain at least the following: context docBase=E:\Tutorial... Please read here: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/appdev/deployment.html -Original Message- From: sumesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 10:48 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Virtual Directory Dear friends, How can I create a Virtual Directory in Apache Tomcat? I have installed tomcat in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1 and I have some Tutorials in E:\Tutorial .I want to publish the same using the same Web Server.How can I do that - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I created the Tutorial.xml file I get some error while starting tomcat - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sorry, I did not read the version. Try this: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-4.1-doc/appdev/deployment.html (Basically, I believe you need to add a context docBase=E:/Tutorial path=tutorial.../ to server.xml Tim -Original Message- From: sumesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 10:40 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Virtual Directory Tim Lucia wrote: Add a file, Tutorial.xml, to your C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1\webapps\ directory. It should contain at least the following: context docBase=E:\Tutorial... Please read here: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/appdev/deployment.html -Original Message- From: sumesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 10:48 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Virtual Directory Dear friends, How can I create a Virtual Directory in Apache Tomcat? I have installed tomcat in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1 and I have some Tutorials in E:\Tutorial .I want to publish the same using the same Web Server.How can I do that - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I created the Tutorial.xml file I get some error while starting tomcat - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: sumesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Virtual Directory How can I create a Virtual Directory in Apache Tomcat? I have installed tomcat in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1 and I have some Tutorials in E:\Tutorial .I want to publish the same using the same Web Server.How can I do that If you're just starting out with Tomcat, you should probably use the current version (5.5.15) rather than something that's over a year old and does not implement the current servlet spec. It's also risky to install Tomcat in a directory path with spaces in the names - creates confusion for lots of programs and scripts. With the current Tomcat level, create a file called [desired_app_name].xml in the conf/Catalina/localhost directory. Within that file, put in a Context tag with the docBase attribute set to E:\Tutorial. You should now be able to reference the tutorial pages via the URI: http://[your_site_name]/[desired_app_name]/[page_name].html I've never used 4.1, so I don't know if the above is applicable to that level. You may have to put your Context tag inside conf/server.xml instead, and you will then need a path attribute to specify [desired_app_name]. Take a look at: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/context.html - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Add a file, Tutorial.xml, to your C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1\webapps\ directory. It should contain at least the following: context docBase=E:\Tutorial... Please read here: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/appdev/deployment.html -Original Message- From: sumesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 10:48 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Virtual Directory Dear friends, How can I create a Virtual Directory in Apache Tomcat? I have installed tomcat in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1 and I have some Tutorials in E:\Tutorial .I want to publish the same using the same Web Server.How can I do that - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
