I apologize. This question was supposed to be sent to tomcat-user. > -----Original Message----- > From: Cherie Yoon > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 6:32 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: path > > Hi, > > I got apache-tomcat working on linux. now i would like to load jsp page > without having to type the parent folder. i.e. (without making change in > existing directory structure) > > localhost/myApp/test.jsp -> localhost/test.jsp > > I made some changes on server.xml and tomcat.conf file (Context path, > Alias...etc), but it didn't work. > for example, i changed the line in tomcat.conf file > Alias /myApp "/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-3.2/webapps/myApp" > to > Alias / "/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-3.2/webapps/myApp" > Then i got error. > Anybody knows how to do this? > > thanks in advance, > cherie > ------------------------------------------------ > FYI:Error msg: > Error:500 Internal Servlet Error > > java.lang.NullPointerException: > at org.apache.tomcat.util.FileUtil.isAbsolute(FileUtil.java:289) > at > org.apache.tomcat.core.Context.getAbsolutePath(Context.java:257) > at org.apache.tomcat.core.Context.getRealPath(Context.java:791) > at > org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletContextFacade.getRealPath(ServletContextFa > cade.java:136) > at > org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:381) > at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) > at > org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:404) > at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:286) > at > org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372) > at > org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java: > 797) > at > org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:743) > at > org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnecti > on(Ajp12ConnectionHandler.java:166) > at > org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:475) > >