I've finally nailed down what I think my problem with Tomcat 5.5.16 and greater is, and condensed it into this easy-to-use, FunSize-ed post.
I have a webapp that is at the root of my appBase, defined in a Context element in my server.xml, like so: <Host name="www.mysite.com" appBase="/web/mysite" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false"> <Context path="" docBase="" reloadable="true" crossContext="true"> <Parameter name="propfile" value="myProps.properties"/> </Context> </Host> I have a servlet, myServlet, defined in my webapp's web.xml (which is located on the filesystem at /web/mysite/WEB-INF/web.xml) and mapped to /servlets/myServlet (accessible and working at www.mysite.com/servlets/myServlet) I have a JSP that lives on the filesystem at /web/mysite/myDir/myPage.jsp, to be accessed at www.mysite.com/myDir/myPage.jsp and contains code similar to this: <% ServletContext ctx = pageContext.getServletContext().getContext("/"); String myUrl = "/servlets/myServlet"; RequestDispatcher dispatcher = ctx.getRequestDispatcher(myUrl); dispatcher.include(request, response); out.clear(); out = pageContext.pushBody(); %> The global web.xml is untouched, and there's really only my servlet mappings in the webapps web.xml. With this config, the www.mysite.com/myDir/myPage.jsp works great on 5.5.15 and below. On 5.5.16+ I get a NullPointerException, that alludes to the RequestDispatcher line. I'm guessing that is because getServletContext() is returning null rather than a root context, or something... If I copy the myPage.jsp to the root (/web/mysite/myPage.jsp) on 5.5.16+, it works fine. I have tried replacing the path="" with path="/" from the Context definition and it's exactly the same. Same goes for removing the docBase="". Changing the getContext("/") in the jsp to getContext("") produces the same result, as does removing it and just using getServletContext(). The servlet doesn't appear to be the problem, as I can replace it with the simplest of servlets and get the same problem. I'm running Apache 1.3.34 with mod_jk 1.2.15, and the appropriate JkMounts, workers, etc., oh and yes, I'm blocking access to WEB-INF and META-INF in my Apache config. I know it's a bit wonky, but I'm trying to shoehorn an old, large collection of servlets that run great on Apache + JServ into a Tomcat configuration. This is the last little nagging problem. Many thanks in advance for any help. -corey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]