Good morning Craig. Hope you get to read this.. (ie this system has me confused after working with newsgroups). Thanks for the feedback. Will try changes based on your suggestions and go from there. Thanks; this Java is worse than 'black-box' at the moment! Norm
----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 5:54 AM Subject: Re: Tomcat 3.3 to 4.1 - Changes? > > > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
