On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Wendy Smoak wrote:

> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:17:59 -0700
> From: Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 'Tomcat Users List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Tomcat and ~user mapping
>
> SRV.9.1 of Servlet Spec 2.3 says:
>
> "A web application is rooted at a specific path within a web server.  ... A
> servlet container can establish rules for automatic generation of web
> applications.  For example, a ~user mapping could be used to map a web
> application based at /home/user/public_html/."
>
> I note that this is a "can" and not a "must".  Does any version of Tomcat
> support this?
>

The Tomcat documentation is your friend :-).

  http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/host.html

Scroll down to "User Web Applications."

> Specifically, the request is to have a bunch of students with webapps in
> their home directories and have Tomcat be able to "see" the webapps and
> execute them.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Wendy Smoak

Craig

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