Hi John,
Ok, I'm going to try show you how I think about this stuff... and I'm often
wrong ;)
Dont use a redirect... it goes back to the browser and its not cool.
Firstly make a servlet and have a look at the CONTEXT.XML file under
META-INF
Change it to......
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context path=""/>
Now have a look at WEB.XML under WEB-INF
make sure the mapping is
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>NewServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
OK.... now that servlet will run for any URI from the domain name up ie
www.host.com/ANYTHINGorNOTHING
You can play with the mapping if you dont want that... but let me show you
how I do this sort of stuff, and then you can tweak it as you want.
Now in the servlet make this routine
protected void displayPage(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response, String thePage)
throws ServletException, IOException {
RequestDispatcher dispatch =
request.getRequestDispatcher(thePage);
dispatch.forward(request, response);
}
Now when the servlet is called in
protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
do this
displayPage( request, response, "index.jsp");
So all of a sudden you can direct any URL to any page without redirects....
can use the API to check the URL and use a case statement whatever.
OK... heres the final trick coz it looks like you trying to run behind
Apache
put this in the servlet.xml file in Tomcat.conf
<Host name=www.site.com appBase="webapps"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
<!-- USE THIS FOR AUTO GEN OF JK MOD for Apache Forwarding to tomcat
MODIFY PATHS FOR YOUR SYSTEM-->
<Listener className="org.apache.jk.config.ApacheConfig" append="true"
forwardAll="false" modJk="D:/DEV/Apache2.2/modules/mod_jk.so"/>
</Host>
Now when you start Tomcat it will create a folder under conf/auto it puts
all the stuff apache needs in a mod_jk.file
looks like this.... but its AUTOMATICALLY generated when tomcat starts.
# Static files
Alias /jsp-examples "D:/DEV/Tomcat 5.5/webapps/jsp-examples"
<Directory "D:/DEV/Tomcat 5.5/webapps/jsp-examples">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.jsp
</Directory>
# Deny direct access to WEB-INF and META-INF
#
<Location "/jsp-examples/WEB-INF/*">
AllowOverride None
deny from all
</Location>
<Location "/jsp-examples/META-INF/*">
AllowOverride None
deny from all
</Location>
#
# Use Directory too. On Windows, Location doesn't work unless case
matches
#
<Directory "D:/DEV/Tomcat 5.5/webapps/jsp-examples/WEB-INF/">
AllowOverride None
deny from all
</Directory>
<Directory "D:/DEV/Tomcat 5.5/webapps/jsp-examples/META-INF/">
AllowOverride None
deny from all
</Directory>
JkMount /jsp-examples/security/protected/j_security_check ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/forward/one.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/tagplugin/foreach.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/dates/date.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsp2/tagfiles/panel.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/xml/xml.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsp2/simpletag/repeat.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/CompressionTest ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/cal/cal2.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/sessions/carts.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/tagplugin/choose.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsptoserv/jsptoservlet.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsp2/misc/config.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/checkbox/checkresult.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/security/protected/login.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsp2/simpletag/book.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/forward/forward.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsp2/jspx/textRotate.jspx ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/simpletag/foo.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/security/protected/index.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/include/include.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/error/err.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsp2/el/basic-arithmetic.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/*.jspx ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsp2/jspx/basic.jspx ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/snp/snoop.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/error/errorpge.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsp2/jspattribute/jspattribute.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/include/foo.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsp2/el/functions.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsp2/tagfiles/products.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsp2/simpletag/hello.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsp2/el/basic-comparisons.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/colors/colrs.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsp2/jspattribute/shuffle.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/num/numguess.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/*.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/plugin/plugin.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/source.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/servletToJsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/tagplugin/if.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/cal/cal1.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsp2/tagfiles/hello.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsptoserv/hello.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsp2/misc/dynamicattrs.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/security/protected/error.jsp ajp13
JkMount /jsp-examples/jsp2/el/implicit-objects.jsp ajp13
THEN in a apache add
# I added this for jk connector jk is auto gen by tomcat======
Include "D:/DEV/Tomcat 5.5/conf/auto/mod_jk.conf"
Apache will use Tomcat and the servlet configuaration in Tomcat..... DONE!
Now even for load balancing I remove the Apache include but still leave the
Autogeneration in tomcat because Tomcat generates the code and I can just
copy and paste.
You'll find you can do anything.... and you should be able to because its a
simple MVC model.
Now you going to tell me you have used Struts or Spring or something..... oh
well, guess you'll have to ask the framework gods.... this is so easy I
really cant understand why people use that stuff.
Hope this helps....
Good luck.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 3:28 AM
Subject: How does one configure Plain host domain url to run web app?
(Tomcat 4.x)
I have the following url that runs an application (pseudo url for
discussion only)
http://www.mydomain.com/mysite/thecontext
works fine..
I would like to configure it so that..
http://www.mydomain.com
gets me to the same place..
I can place a "redirect" html page at
http://www.mydomain.com/mysite/index.html
which redirects to
http://www.mydomain.com/mysite/thecontext
but have yet to get a plain
http://www.mydomain.com
to work.. I keep getting either the "No Context configured....." error or
the dreaded index of the directory..
I've tried Aliaes, Document root, Directory, and various JkMount settings
in the Virtual host conf file that seemed like it might work, but so far,
no joy.. (Tried Googling it, but have not come up with the right key
words..)
Some of the things I have tried in the conf file..
==========================
Alias /mysite "usr/tomcat/webapps/mysite"
Alias / "usr/tomcat/webapps/mysite"
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mysite/"
<Directory "/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mysite">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.jsp
</Directory>
JkMount /mysite/thecontext ajp13
JkMount /mysite/*.jsp ajp13
..variations of..
JkMount /*.jsp ajp13 -- gives me a dreaded index of the correct
directory
JkMount /*.html ajp13 -- same as above
JkMount /*. ajp13 -- blank document (strange)
JkMount /* ajp13 -- context error
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