Hello everyone, Setting up Tomcat is NO easy project. I've been struggling for about a week and a half to get tomcat to read a special servlet/application/I really don't know what to call it. (Unfortunately, that's my biggest problem, I'm very unfamiliar with things I'm playing around with right now.)
Ok, in simplest terms possible here's the deal. I'm trying to get a working model of something my company calls a portal. Basically, it's nothing more than a product that will allow a person to use *.jsp rendered web pages to access/control/manipulate data contained withing Oracle databases. This is the long term. Right now, I need to get the application working to allow someone to log in. The database which controls user access is NOT part of Oracle. It is a PostgreSQL database. How, exactly, do I setup the JDBC stuff to interact with PostgreSQL? I've been reading through the users guide, the paper on server.xml and the FAQ. The information is comprehensive, I do think lacking in some parts, but none-the-less comprehensive. (I do not mean to start flame wars or anything else. However, for example, I downloaded and installed tomcat 3.3a via rpm for Red Hat Linux, the rpm was made by tomcat developers not red hat. After installing, I'm reading through the users guide and there are several directories meantioned that DO NOT exist. Such as, %TOMCAT_HOME/bin and many others. This is what I mean by lacking.) How exactly am I going to go about setting up the database connectivity? From what I've read, I've got to configure some kind of a JDBC Realm in the server.xml, but how exactly. I did try, following the syntax example given in one of the user guide documents, but after restarting tomcat, tomcat was broken. Absolutely, nothing was being served up. I did make syntax substitutions to allow for my database vs. the database given in the example, and yes I'm absolutely open to the fact that my syntax was wrong. Basically, what needs to be done? I'm really nearing the end of my rope on this one. Andy -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>