The organization of webapps isn't tree oriented on disk. It's a flat
list of webapps on disk with the "default" webapp being named the
special name ROOT (defined by the servlet spec). If you need webapps
organized deeper than the top level (ie /myWeb/path/app), then you use
the pound symbol as a path separator in the webapp's name (ie
myWeb#path#app). Unfortunately that trick seems to only work in a very
limited set of circumstances. You can search the list for where this
works or doesn't work.
Don't overlap the webapps directory and the apache httpd virtual
directory. It's cleaner to keep the two separated. Instead organize
your content so static resources served by apache httpd are in a apache
httpd directory. It seems to me what you are really after is the way
php works and you can't get that with tomcat.
--David
Scott Dunbar wrote:
Thanks for the input. However, I guess I'm still missing something.
I want a directory to be the root directory of a virtual host. That
directory is itself a webapp and may have other directories within it
that are webapps (with explicit Context elements). To this point I
have never had to have a different directory from my default stuff.
In effect this change means that there is no such thing as a default
webapp directory - it must be explicitly enumerated. There is a
Tomcat proprietary convention of naming a default one ROOT but that
will complicate my move to any other app server. It also complicates
an Apache httpd and Tomcat environment. Previously I was able to put
the Apache httpd VirtualHost DocumentRoot and the Tomcat Host appBase
at the same place and have httpd serve static content while Tomcat
served dynamic content. Now I have to change my directory structure
because there are really two different places to get root level
things. For example, doing a jsp:include of /something.jsp comes from
a different directory than including CSS from /styles.css. This just
seems more complicated to me. You really can not overlay
VirtualHost's and Host's anymore.
Is what I'm trying to do wrong? My frustration stems from the fact
that I always been able to have a directory that is the root and,
optionally, separate directories under the root that are webapps with
their own Context. What you're saying is that I can't do that - I
need an explicit directory for my default webapp that is different
from the root of the virtual host (though it can be a child of it).
That complicates the directory structure and, since the Tomcat 3.x
days through at least 5.5.15 is not the way it worked.
I guess what I'm looking for is a true default Context but it seems
that that no longer exists - it must be explicit. This could explain
some other problems I'm having with JRoller not being able to be the
top of a virtual host anymore with 5.5.23 (and, with some
experimentation, 5.5.20 also).
I'll continue to experiment - thanks for your help.
Mark Thomas wrote:
Scott Dunbar wrote:
Thanks, I checked that and my I don't set a docBase in my context:
<Host name="domainname.tld" appBase="/home/scott/sites/domainname.tld"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
<Context path="" docBase="" />
And there is the problem. If it isn't absolute, docBase is relative to
appBase so you do have appBase == docBase
To fix this:
- remove the Context element from your server.xml
- assuming you have only one webapp deployed, move the contents of
/home/scott/sites/domainname.tld to
/home/scott/sites/domainname.tld/ROOT
- if you have multiple webapps deployed, just move the files that are
part of the ROOT webapp
Mark
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