On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, NormW wrote:
> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 20:58:53 +1100 > From: NormW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Tomcat 3.3 to 4.1 - Changes? > > Good evening All. > Working with Tomcat on Netware (no cringing please). > Trying to upgrade Tomcat from 3.3 to 4.1.x (current). > > - Has the 'ContextXMLReader' directives/function been dropped in the latest releases? > (Cannot find reference to it in the Docs and cannot get it to work on 4.1) Tomcat 4.x and 5.x haven't ever had anything exactly like ContextXMLReader. A somewhat similar capability is to put just an XML file containing a <Context> element into the webapps directory (this is how the admin and manager webapps are configured by default). > - Will Tomcat 4.1.x work with web apps outside its own webapps directory? > Have set the docBase var for the context to an absolute path "sys:/.." (etc) > (I get the impression it's not reading the associated web.xml file) > You have to use a path that the JDK considers to be absolute (i.e. something that java.io.File.isAbsolute() will return true for). All other paths are interpreted as relative to the "appBase" directory of the <Host> element. > TIA > Norm > Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
