Hi It's me again. I am sure about it. I think you want to point tomcat to some other directory then webapps. (like when you open http://ADDRESS:PORT/, instead of tomcat page you want to see your directory listing). To do that, create a new file called ROOT.xml inside TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost (default context directory). Please cheak your tomcat documentation for specific context directory. ROOT.xml contains:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <Context docBase="C:/Sample-dir" path=""> </Context> That's it. Restart the tomcat and try http://ADDRESS:PORT/. You should see your listing. Hope I am right to understand your question this time. ;) Regards, Dhaval --- Dhaval Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Based upon your talk I am assuming following: > - You have directory c:\sample-dir which text files and other files. > - You want to make something like http://ADDRESS/sample-dir which displays > list > of files (like online apache browsing). > > Here is the one way you can do it quickly: > > (1) Even though your application is not web-app, you still need to make it > look > like web-app to tomcat. For that create directory "WEB-INF" inside > c:\sample-dir. > Now create a web.xml inside WEB-INF as following: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> > <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee > http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"; > version="2.4"> > <servlet> > <servlet-name>default</servlet-name> > > <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet</servlet-class> > <init-param> > <param-name>debug</param-name> > <param-value>0</param-value> > </init-param> > <init-param> > <param-name>listings</param-name> > <param-value>true</param-value> > </init-param> > <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> > </servlet> > </web-app> > > I am running Tomcat 5.5 and I copied it from ROOT\WEB-INF\web.xml and I > removed the contents between <web-app ..> and </web-app>. You can refer to > your > tomcat installation. Basically all you need is the <web-app> node inside your > web-xml. The <servlet> node is the default one. Make sure you set "listings" > to > true so that you can see the files. "listings" flag should be true by default. > If > it is true, you don't need <servlet> tag at all and <web-app> should be empty. > > (2) Now we have our sample-dir as a fake web application. Now we need to > create > context for it. There are two ways to do this: > > (A) Inside and detail way: > Create the context file having name sample-dir.xml (why? because we want to > call > it as http://ADDRESS/samlple-dir. If you want to call it sample, make the > filename sample.xml) ike this: > > <Context docBase="c:\sample-dir" > privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false" antiJARLocking="false"> > </Context> > > Where to put this xml? Depends upon your installation it should be inside > conf. (probably conf\Catalina\localhost\). Just verify it and refer the > documentation. It is very easy to find. > > (B) Easy way: > Use "admin" webapplication of Tomcat to create context. It is very easy and > it > does above things for you. > > (3) Restart the tomcat on safe side and you should get the result on > http://ADDRESS/sample-dir. > > Hope this helps. Let us know how it goes. > > Regards, > Dhaval > > --- Smitha Murthy Krishna Nagesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a directory of text files that is not deployed into the Tomcat > > server. It has some jsp's but certainly doesn't have the structure of a > > web application. I need to somehow point Tomcat to this directory so > > that the Tomcat can display the contents of these text files. Can you > > please provide pointers on how to do it? Which files need to be modified > > etc. > > > > Thanks, > > Smitha > > > > -- > > Smitha Murthy Krishna Nagesh > > Software RDE > > Ph: (650) 786-6328 > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
