Adding a context is not quite enough. It must be recognized as a web-app also. Which means place an empty web.xml file in the WEB-INF directory.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Hixson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 3:54 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: serving static content > > > I'm trying to serve images from /usr/local/watermarks. The > URL should > be http://mymachine.com/watermarks/. I've tried adding a Context to > server.xml, but every time I try to access > http://mymachine.com/watermarks I get a 404 message: > > The requested resource (/watermarks/) is not available. > > This is with Tomcat 5.0.26 embedded in JBoss 3.2.4. There > are not any > error messages in any logfiles. > Thanks, > -M@ > > On Jul 9, 2004, at 1:41 PM, Mike Curwen wrote: > > > Tomcat will serve static content, pretty much "out of the > box". What > > is > > the problem you're experiencing ? > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Matthew Hixson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 3:27 PM > >> To: Tomcat Users List > >> Subject: serving static content > >> > >> > >> Does there exist a howto on serving static content with > Tomcat? Even > >> better would be one that shows how to do this with Tomcat+JBoss. > >> Searching Google seems to turn up lots of hits that say basically, > >> "Use Apache instead of Tomcat to serve static content." I really > >> need to get this working in Tomcat without Apache. > >> Thanks, > >> -M@ > >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
