Thanks for the input. However, I guess I'm still missing something.
I want a directory to be the root directory of a virtual host. That directory is itself a webapp and may have other directories within it that are webapps (with explicit Context elements). To this point I have never had to have a different directory from my default stuff. In effect this change means that there is no such thing as a default webapp directory - it must be explicitly enumerated. There is a Tomcat proprietary convention of naming a default one ROOT but that will complicate my move to any other app server. It also complicates an Apache httpd and Tomcat environment. Previously I was able to put the Apache httpd VirtualHost DocumentRoot and the Tomcat Host appBase at the same place and have httpd serve static content while Tomcat served dynamic content. Now I have to change my directory structure because there are really two different places to get root level things. For example, doing a jsp:include of /something.jsp comes from a different directory than including CSS from /styles.css. This just seems more complicated to me. You really can not overlay VirtualHost's and Host's anymore.
Is what I'm trying to do wrong? My frustration stems from the fact that I always been able to have a directory that is the root and, optionally, separate directories under the root that are webapps with their own Context. What you're saying is that I can't do that - I need an explicit directory for my default webapp that is different from the root of the virtual host (though it can be a child of it). That complicates the directory structure and, since the Tomcat 3.x days through at least 5.5.15 is not the way it worked.
I guess what I'm looking for is a true default Context but it seems that that no longer exists - it must be explicit. This could explain some other problems I'm having with JRoller not being able to be the top of a virtual host anymore with 5.5.23 (and, with some experimentation, 5.5.20 also).
I'll continue to experiment - thanks for your help. Mark Thomas wrote:
Scott Dunbar wrote:Thanks, I checked that and my I don't set a docBase in my context: <Host name="domainname.tld" appBase="/home/scott/sites/domainname.tld" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false"> <Context path="" docBase="" />And there is the problem. If it isn't absolute, docBase is relative to appBase so you do have appBase == docBase To fix this: - remove the Context element from your server.xml - assuming you have only one webapp deployed, move the contents of /home/scott/sites/domainname.tld to /home/scott/sites/domainname.tld/ROOT - if you have multiple webapps deployed, just move the files that are part of the ROOT webapp Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
