* Barley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0256 21:56]: > OK, so then do I have this right? > > I put virtual host declarations in <Host> containers in > the server.xml file. > > I put <Context>'s in my <Host> to point Tomcat at the > various url patterns it should handle.
Yeah, pretty much - you can also create a file called foo.xml in hostroot/ and tomcat will create a context based on that (easier to admin than editing server.xml all the time). > I configure authorization restraints in the > /hostroot/WEB-INF/web.xml file. hostroot/contextname/WEB-INF/web.xml Well, the way I do it (I doubt it's the only way) is this: I have a host called pussy.tenten (as in tomcat, kitty,pussy - nothing kinky), and so I create a vhost called pussy.tenten by creating a <Host> element in server.xml. It has an appBase of 'pussy', so that translates to $CATALINA_HOME/pussy on my box. Requests to http://pussy.tenten will be answered by this vhost. Now if I create a directory pussy/test, tomcat automatically reads that as a new Context called 'test'. pussy/test/index.jsp will be viewable as: http://pussy.tenten/test/index.jsp WEB-INF is then inside test/ , and if I copied foo.war to $CATALINA_HOME/pussy, tomcat auto-deploys it by extracting it to pussy/foo/ and I'd be able to view its contents at http://pussy.tenten/foo/ > Can I configure > authorization based on url patterns? Like all access to > /securestuff/ requires admin access, or does this > require a separate webapp? That'll work, but paths inside the web.xml are usually relative to that webapp (i.e they'd have a test/ prefix in the example above). Very good explanation of web.xml at http://www.moreservlets.com (downloadable pdf) Very good explanation of server.xml at the tomcat homepage. > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/context.html Yeah, that's it! > > Tim Moore / Blackboard Inc. / Software Engineer -- One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs -- but it is amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette. -- Professor Charles P. Issawi Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
