Ahhh.... And now I hear many software vendors screaming in agony.
Our packaged ecommerce software came with instructions to work with the bug - without mentioning it was a bug. This explains a lot. Thank you. ^.^ ~LZM~ -----Original Message----- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:06 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Virtual Hosts: path="/" without using ROOT folder? Lessie Z. Mitch wrote: > Why does my original configuration not work anymore? I will keep Mark's > recommended configuration but would like to know they "why" behind the > "how". Helps me understand when launching other sites on this server (there > will be another 4 virtual hosts, each serving up 3 or 4 webapps). The 2.5 servlet spec relaxed the rules on what could be deployed as a webapp to include a dir with just static files and/or JSPs. To support this, Tomcat deploys any dir under a host's appBase as a webapp. This was ported back to 5.5 since it doesn't break the spec and was viewed as useful. Setting appBase==docBase was invalid and never supported but, as the side-effect of a bug, actually worked. A number of how-to guides suggested this config and people started to use it. When the bug was fixed the invalid configuration stopped working. This fix combined with the auto-deployment of any dir in an appBase created all sorts of weirdness. Hope this explains some of the background. Mark No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.1/1299 - Release Date: 2/26/2008 9:08 AM --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
