I thought I better test my theories... it does behave as stated below.
Whew!
Johnny,
When you drop a new servlet(.war) in webapps dir while TC is
running that .war file is unpackaged and deployed in tomcat, and you
could use it without restart TC.
Yes, that what I'm trying to say... its auto deploying.
But you cant do that in the ~user/public_html/THE UNPACKED WAR
You have to unpack it and stick it there yourself
So, I think if you changed it... you would have to reload the ~user folder
from http://localhost:8080/manager/html
And no... I dont think you can have multiple web-apps.... TC see's the
~user folder as just one webapp
And I think that the TC Servlet examples work... because all the servlet
examples are called from a static page.
But if I remember... calling the servlet directly /~user/myservlet.... did
not work...
Its mimicing the typical static sites SP's give a user when they get an
account...
The user lays out a site, then FTP's it up.
It runs html and TC also allows JSP, and if there are servlets there they
utils, like site counters... that "you" put there.
Because as soon as the user touches a servlet... it has to be
redeployed... TC will not detect a new FTP's up servlet.
So... now what?
If you want to make every user have mini TC in their user folder, then you
have to get creative with that first deployment method I showed you.
Effectively it means making a special deployment web page for each user...
and that method then does not use the ~user... even though the webapps
are in the user folder... it works just like tomcat proper.... so user can
make lots of full webapps... but they have to be deployed thru your admin
page.
~user is just for simple user sites... I think
I've copied all servlets examples in default installation to my
home dir, and all jsp pages work, but when I call to a servlet it
fails, also if i drop a zip or a war or a folder containing a servlet
also doesn't works.
Yes thats what I found too... but the servlets do work if called from a
html page like in servlet_examples... so there is some unusual servlet
mapping going in inside TC.... good for a web counter, "not good" for
powerful web-apps.... I think
Another question:
Can I have multple webapps folders in my tomcat installation?
No... because you unpacking and they all overlay... its really just one
web-app
Have a look at what you got working in http://localhost:8080/manager/html
I think you will see.... just one web app per user... you seem to be
wanting to emulate a TC for each user... ~user is not going to do that for
you.
Have fun ;)
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