Stephen Winnall wrote: > Can anyone help me with this? I'm completely stuck! > > I have a Tomcat 6.0.18 installation with WebdavServlet enabled. If I use > the following <Context> file, WebDAV works OK: > > <Context> > <Resource name="jdbc/xwdb" auth="Container" > type="javax.sql.DataSource" > driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver" > url="..." > username="..." password="..." maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" > maxWait="-1"/> > </Context> > > However, I want to use WebDAV to access a database, so I've written my > own DirContext. I declare the DirContext as a <Resources> handler in the > <Context> file as follows: > > <Context> > <Resources className="org.vimia.xw.db.dircontext.DBDirContext" /> > <Resource name="jdbc/xwdb" auth="Container" > type="javax.sql.DataSource" > driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver" > url="..." > username="..." password="..." maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" > maxWait="-1"/> > </Context> > > But when I do this, WebdavServlet is ignored and HTTP sessions are > created with HttpServlet / DefaultServlet, which fail, of course, > because they know nothing about WebDAV. The <Resources> handler seems > effectively to make WebdavServlet invisible...
Hmm. I would have expected that to work. You are doing the right thing. > I've googled for just about every combination of dirContext, > classloader, Tomcat 6, resources, context.xml, WebdavServlet. There are > 2 people who have asked before about how to access a database from > WebdavServlet, but no answers. > > I guess I'm missing something dead simple, but I don't know what to look > for. If you replace the DirContext implementation, Tomcat will look in your database for WEB-INF/web.xml which is where the WebDAV servlet needs to be defined. Did you include this resource (and any other required WEB-INF resources) in your database? I assume your context.xml file is under: CATALINA_BASE/<engine name>/<host name>/ Mark > > Steve > > > On 13 Feb 2009, at 13:33, Stephen Winnall wrote: > >> Thanks for your feedback. >> >> On 13 Feb 2009, at 05:04, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> >>>> From: Stephen Winnall [mailto:st...@winnall.ch] >>>> Subject: WebdavServlet + custom DirContext = unexpected behaviour >>>> >>>> My Tomcat is as installed by NetBeans 6.5, that is >>>> with a separate CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE. >>> >>> I'd strongly recommend that you first learn how to run Tomcat >>> directly, outside of any IDE, before muddying the picture with an >>> extra layer of obfuscation. Problem solving will be much simpler. >> >> Fair comment. So I have now installed Tomcat 6.0.18 from scratch. >> >>> >>> >>>> I modified $CATALINA_BASE/conf/catalina.properties to make >>>> common.loader look also in $CATALINA_BASE/common/lib and I >>>> put DBDirContext and supporting cast into there. >>> >>> Now you've already gone off the deep end; that's not something you >>> should have to (or want to) do. By default, there is no common/lib >>> in Tomcat 6.0, and you don't need to resurrect the past. Any jars or >>> classes Tomcat needs access to should be in Tomcat's lib directory, >>> nowhere else. If you provide a replacement for the default >>> <Resources> handler, it must go into Tomcat's lib directory, since >>> it's used by Tomcat, not the webapp. >> >> I did originally put everything into $CATALINA_HOME/lib. However, I >> like to keep my stuff separate from the base product, which is why I >> had created a separate folder. >> >> However, with my new installation I put DBDirContext and friends into >> $CATALINA_HOME/lib as you suggest. >> >> When I started up the new installation, I got exactly the same >> behaviour as before. >> >>> >>> >>>> The Tomcat documentation suggests that changing the >>>> <Resources .../> to something other than the filesystem >>>> results in Tomcat not being able to read files it needs: >>> >>> Not true - it says the *webapp* won't be able to access the file >>> system; it says nothing about Tomcat's ability to do so. >> >> Thanks, that has cleared up an uncertainty for me. >> >>> >>> >>>> do I have to make a hybrid DBDirContext that gets the >>>> files Tomcat needs from the filesystem and the data I >>>> want from the database? >>> >>> I don't think so. Start over with a clean Tomat install (not the one >>> bundled with the IDE) and go from there. >> >> Done that and there's no change in behaviour. When I switch on the >> <Resources> handler, the OPTIONS request is apparently handled out of >> HttpServlet; when I switch it off, it is handled out of WebdavServlet. >> >> Steve >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
