Mark Thomas, To start on a positive note, I 've never found an open source project with real help as accessable, as reliable, as knowledgeable, or as patient as I have with Tomcat. I have access to amazing support/discussion groups, with immediate communications to developers and document writers. It's better than any product I've ever paid for.
I know you spend a LOT of time "with" end users. Thanks a million. You really make tomcat work for us. With your pointers I've been able to glean the info I needed and I've fixed my problem. I don't think there is any "wrong" info on the doc pages. But either I am not seeing everything there is to read, or there is a lack of explanation about contexts. I mean, really, I've been using tomcat for a few years and I learned the whole thing alone. Just me, a book, tomcat, and this list (I guess that's not really alone). And frankly, there is no reasonable explanation of what a context is. I feel like the documentation might be assuming I know more than I do. Me and anybody else who has very few resources to become introduced to tomcat. Where am I looking on the site? Well, I go to the tomcat page and click Configuration in the Reference section of links. I click on Context under the Containters section of links. The definition of a context there is VERY VAGUE. And although it lists the elements of a context, it gives NO EXAMPLES and no explanation of how to create a context, and what a context does. It says what a context is, but not what it does. Please consider revising the context page to make it clearer. If I had a firmer understanding, I would volunteer a revision myself. Justin ----- Original Message ---- From: Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2006 10:27:38 PM Subject: Re: Include Directive Misbehaving Justin Jaynes wrote: > Oh snap! That's exactly what's happening. Can you point me to a good > document that expalins how to set up contexts? I've got everything set up > exactly as you described. > > Any good reading for a comprehensive (or even rudimetry) understanding would > be greatly appreciated. The on-line docs should have what you need. If we can id places where changes are needed then I'll get them incorporated. > If you can explain it in a reasonable length that is appropriate to this > forum (and convenient to your time), it would also be greatly appreciated. The short version is: - a context's docBase should never be the same as a host's appBase A suitable directory structure for multiple hosts could be: $CATALINA_HOME\host1-webapps -> Host1 appBase $CATALINA_HOME\host1-webapps\ROOT -> Default context for Host1 $CATALINA_HOME\host1-webapps\app1 -> Application on Host1 $CATALINA_HOME\host1-webapps\app2 -> Application on Host1 $CATALINA_HOME\host2-webapps -> Host2 appBase $CATALINA_HOME\host2-webapps\ROOT -> Default context for Host2 $CATALINA_HOME\host2-webapps\app3 -> Application on Host2 etc for as many hosts and applications as you like > The explanation in the doc on the tomcat.apache.org site seems to only cover > what I am using, which treats every director as a webapp. Definatly not what > I want. Which page(s) are you looking at? If the docs tell you to do this they need to be changed. I can't see anything like this but I could easily be missing the obvious. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
