Absolutely all correct, including the design flaws (partly due to the
learning curve, partly to the
process of pasting together non-web software which has such embedded
knowledge -- needs
to be overcome).
However, after my 3rd cup of coffee this morning, it occurrs to me that
what I'm after is not
really that myapp be the /default/ application, but that myapp be the
application which runs
when the server receives the request http://myhost, where myhost is the
name of the HOST
in which myapp is a Context. As a Context for HOST, the request
http://myhost/myapp/
causes myapp to run. Since I plan to use
http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/ to rewrite URLs,
and since "/" will rewrite to "/myapp/", then the request htpp://myhost/
will ending up causing myapp to handle the request.
Is this sound? Am I missing something here?
Thanks,
Ken
Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
From: Ken Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to specify a default context?
Is there no other way, one which leaves the app with its
original name?
Place your webapp outside of the <Host>'s appBase directory, and put
your <Context> element in conf/Catalina/[host]/ROOT.xml with a docBase
attribute pointing to the absolute file system location of your webapp.
Because of the convoluted way I've written the app, renaming
it to ROOT has bad effects.
If you have coded the app to use a specific URL to refer to itself, then
it can't be the default app, can it? If you've coded I/O paths within
the app, then you've violated the servlet spec, which expects that
webapps can be deployed on devices without file systems. Either are
major design flaws that should never make it into a production system.
- Chuck
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