I've been away from Tomcat for a while, and just tried setting up 5.5.9 on WinXP, with JDK1.5.0_2. It's working reasonably well, but I'm having some issues.
First of all, what is the "admin app"? It's obviously different from "manager", but I can't find any information about it. When I try to execute it, it says I must download and install the "admin package". I found a reference in tomcat-user to the "Admin tool" which shows how you install it once you get the installer, but nothing about where to get the installer, or even what the admin app does. After I installed Tomcat, I deployed an app through the Manager app, from a directory and context, not uploading a WAR. It confused me later when I tried changing one of the JSP files in the directory, and it wouldn't get recompiled. I later realized that deploying from a directory actually copies the tree from that directory into the "webapps" directory inside the Tomcat distribution. Is it feasible to have the actual webapp location be outside of the Tomcat distribution? This is more realistic in a development situation. The most bizarre thing is that I've twice tried to edit files in the Tomcat distribution, being the "conf/web.xml" and then later the JSP file for my application stored in the "webapp" directory, and that seems to cause Tomcat to fail with "Access denied" errors on the files that I edited. After I change the file, I've made sure my reference to the file was closed, from the editor I was using. I even tried restarting the box, and surprisingly, that had no effect. It still got "Access Denied" errors. The only thing I could do was undeploy the app (in the case of the the JSP file) and redeploy it, or in the case of the "conf/web.xml", I had to completely uninstall Tomcat and reinstall it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
