In your Test.jsp, why don't you have something similar to:
<stylesheet type="text/css"
location="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/css/Styles.css" />
I'm of course assuming tomcat 5.x.x and the web.xml file is declared for
servlet spec 2.4. This should work whether the running tomcat instance
is on your local machine or the production server.
--David
Alec Swan wrote:
Web designers don't run web servers or servlet containers on their machines. (I call their
environment "static"). They just create web pages using Dreamweaver and preview them in
different browsers. So, in my running example Test.jsp would have the following relative link
../../css/Styles.css in order for it to work in the "static" environment.
However, this relative link doesn't work when I deploy Test.jsp in Tomcat.
Suppose I deploy my web-app under /testapp context. In this case, Test.jsp
would have to link to the css file through one of the following links:
../testapp/css/Styles.css or
/css/Styles.css
Neither of which work in the "static" environment used by web designers.
I hope this elucidates the problem a little further. So, the question persists,
what is the right way to get links to CSS files to work in static as well as
deployed environment?
Thanks.
Hassan Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/4/06, Alec Swan wrote:
I need to reference Styles.css from Test.jsp in such a way that it works in
static as well as in deployed mode. Note that for this to work in the static
mode (no web servers or servlet containers) all paths should be relative.
Therefore, when I deploy Test.jsp I want Tomcat either to handle relative paths
correctly or ignore the path altogether and just serve all CSS file from a
certain location (directory or URL).
The goal of all this is to maintain only one source tree used by web designers
and Tomcat administrator and avoid changing paths in JSP files during
deployment.
I would appreciate any feedback on this.
OK, since you asked :-) -- this seems a really strange requirement;
are your "web designers" unable to run a Tomcat instance to work
in?
But in any case, using relative links to a css file works fine on a test
page I just did that mirrors your described files. So *exactly* how is
this not working for you?
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