Sorry if I didn't write properly what I wanted to say, but what I was saying is just that if you want to serve only static html files there are many other simpler solutions to do that, that's all. Again even I use it for example to serve .css, .js files on my server so I agree it is 100 % possible to use a tomcat server that way.
Victor Kabdebon http://www.voxnucleus.fr 2010/12/8 Victor Kabdebon <victor.kabde...@gmail.com> > Christopher, > > Yes but using tomcat to server html files looks to me like using a hammer > to kill a fly. Anyway everybody is free to do what he wants ! > > Concerning the IDE, its advantage is to be automatic, but in a way it adds > an extra layer of difficulty... > > Victor > http://www.voxnucleus.fr > > 2010/12/8 Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Victor, >> >> On 12/8/2010 2:45 PM, Victor Kabdebon wrote: >> > I might be wrong but maybe you need to set something in your web.xml to >> > deliver static files. (basically Tomcat is not designed to run static >> html >> > files, you can use a combination of Apache serveur + tomcat serveur to >> do >> > that). >> >> You are wrong. Tomcat is designed to serve static files via the >> DefaultServlet, which is (surprise) enabled by default. >> >> > I strongely recommand you to use an IDE such as Netbeans >> >> - -1 >> >> If the OP can't figure out how to place files on the disk, adding an IDE >> is going to make things so much worse. >> >> - -chris >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAkz/4RgACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PC3ewCgmzrIYL3kkkGLHcCd5x4QKVqC >> I8UAoK4p3jnNS1XnDO706cZzSVn53FVA >> =X4w9 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> >> >
