First, config info. This is using Tomcat 3.2.1 with its own built-in Web server on W2K. I've looked through the FAQ and mailing list archives and can't find an answer to this question (I can't find the question, either, which I think is kinda weird, but there you are...). I have a web application set up in its own top-level context, let's say /myapp. So I can refer to pages within that context with http://myserver/myapp/page.jsp. That works fine as a URL provided in an HREF. The problem comes when I forward to files within that context. I use some static members stored in a bean to provide configurable mapping to components within that app. So I'll have this: public class MyBean { public static String kstrMyRootDir = "/myapp"; public static String kstrMyComp1 = kstrMyRootDir + "/comp1"; public static String kstrMyComp2 = kstrMyRootDir + "/comp2"; public static String kstrMyComp3 = kstrMyRootDir + "/comp3"; } Then I can do stuff like: <jsp:forward page='<%= kstrMyComp1 + "/page.jsp" %>' /> This works fine using JRun 2.3.3. This directive would forward the page to /myapp/comp1/page.jsp. Now I'm trying to move this app to work on Tomcat and I don't get the same behavior. Instead, the above directive tries to forward to /myapp/myapp/comp1/page.jsp. This is bad. So obviously Tomcat appends the context name onto forward directives. This includes when I tear the call down and do it directly in code like this: pageContext.forward (kstrMyComp1 + "/page.jsp"); The string arithmetic gives me the proper page and path, i.e. /myapp/comp1/page.jsp, so this happens somewhere that I can't directly affect through code. Now, this seems stupid to me, since the fact that the path begins with '/' indicates that it should go to the server root, NOT the context root. So: * Is there a good explanation as to why this is done this way? I know there's some restriction about switching from context to context, i.e. /app1 to /app2. Is this an upshot of that restriction? * Regardless of the explanation, good or not, is there any way to make this go away? I don't want to have to retool my code to work with this if I can help it. There will be a lot of forwards to fix and I expect that includes work the same way, although I haven't tested it yet. Thanks for any info you may have on this! It's driving me up a wall! -- Rick Herrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nothing is amusing in zero gravity... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
