Re: Serving CSS files from a certain URL

Beautiful! I'll give it a try! Thanks. Hassan Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/5/06, Alec Swan wrote: > I like your idea of using filters to rewrite CSS paths. Could you give > me a hint on how to do that best? Actually, if you're in a hurry, you could just use the URL Rewrite Filter

Re: Serving CSS files from a certain URL

On 7/5/06, Alec Swan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I like your idea of using filters to rewrite CSS paths. Could you give me a hint on how to do that best? Actually, if you're in a hurry, you could just use the URL Rewrite Filter -- see -- an incredibly handy tool

Re: Serving CSS files from a certain URL

I have a different perspective on using consistent environments across development and design teams. I think it will be unreasonable to expect designers to change a CSS file, update the WAR file and redeploy it on the local Tomcat instane just to see how CSS changes affected the look of the site

Re: Serving CSS files from a certain URL

You are right, the problem is with the way JSPs are deployed. I do use the first servlet-mapping pattern, which does NOT match the full path, but rather the context path /testapp. I like your idea of using filters to rewrite CSS paths. Could you give me a hint on how to do that best? Thanks.

Re: Serving CSS files from a certain URL

On 7/5/06, Alec Swan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In any case I don't understand why this works in your case. Now that I have more coffee in me, me neither :-) It really shouldn't, and I'm at another location now, so I can't revisit that, but... The problem is that "relative" to the container d

Re: Serving CSS files from a certain URL

Where do your logs say that it is looking for the CSS files? There must be a record somewhere of the hit for each file, maybe that can tell you what's wrong. Post the log entries? Alec Swan wrote: > Web designers don't run web servers or servlet containers on their machines. > (I call their env

Re: Serving CSS files from a certain URL

David, the problem is that there is no servlet container or web server running on the local machine. I need the JSP page to load the CSS page correctly whether it's deployed on tomcat or not. David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In your Test.jsp, why don't you have something similar to: loc

Re: Serving CSS files from a certain URL

In your Test.jsp, why don't you have something similar to: location="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/css/Styles.css" /> I'm of course assuming tomcat 5.x.x and the web.xml file is declared for servlet spec 2.4. This should work whether the running tomcat instance is on your local machine

Re: Serving CSS files from a certain URL

I don't have the logs in front of me right now, but I will send them later today. In any case I don't understand why this works in your case. What URL do you use to access your Test.jsp? I would assume it's http://localhost:8080/testapp/jsp/Test.jsp. Therefore, if this jsp page references ../..

Re: Serving CSS files from a certain URL

On 7/5/06, Alec Swan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Web designers don't run web servers or servlet containers on their machines. (I call their environment "static"). I understand -- and I think that's a bad idea. But whatever. So, in my running example Test.jsp would have the following relative

Re: Serving CSS files from a certain URL

Web designers don't run web servers or servlet containers on their machines. (I call their environment "static"). They just create web pages using Dreamweaver and preview them in different browsers. So, in my running example Test.jsp would have the following relative link ../../css/Styles.css in

Re: Serving CSS files from a certain URL

On 7/4/06, Alec Swan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to reference Styles.css from Test.jsp in such a way that it works in static as well as in deployed mode. Note that for this to work in the static mode (no web servers or servlet containers) all paths should be relative. Therefore, when I

Re: Serving CSS files from a certain URL

The problem is that my JSP uses relative paths to reference CSS files. These paths work fine in the static mode, i.e. when I open JSP file directly in the browser without deploying it on Tomcat. However, when I deploy the JSP all relative links stop working. Here is an example. Suppose I have t

Re: Serving CSS files from a certain URL

On 7/2/06, Alec Swan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a servlet, which I deploy as a WAR file. I want this servlet to service all .jsp requests, but have Tomcat service .css files from /site/css/ directory inside the servlet WAR file. I don't want Tomcat to invoke my servlet when serving CSS

Serving CSS files from a certain URL

Hi, I have a problem I've been struggling with for the last couple of hours. Basically, I need to configure Tomcat (preferably using web.xml) to server requests for CSS pages from a certain context path. For example, I want Tomcat to serve the request for /css/styles.css from /site/css/styles.c