Hello all,
I am new to tomcat and running into a problem that I am unable to
resolve. I don't know all the correct vocabulary to use here, so bare
with me as I attempt to describe the problem I'm running into. Here
goes...
In a nutshell:
All requests to:
dwww.mycompany.com:8010/foor/bar.ext
get forwarded correctly to the servlet running in ${APP_BASE} until a
directory named ${APP_BASE}/foo exists. Once a directory named $
{APP_BASE}/foo exists (and can be empty), no requests of the form
above will get sent to the correct (in this case only) servlet. I
simply get a 404 error as a response.
The details:
I believe this issue has to do with how tomcat maps a request to a
servlet, but have no idea of what I'm doing wrong. My research online
of sun's servlet spec and the tomcat website hasn't provided me a
solution (or has and I haven't recognized it :-P). Here is my
server.xml configuration:
<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
<Service name="Tomcat-Page">
<Connector port="8010" enableLookups="false"/>
<Engine name="Page" defaultHost="dwww.mycompany.com">
<Host name="dwww.mycompany.com" appBase="/opt/path/to/webapps/page"
unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="true">
<Context path=""
docBase="."
reloadable="true"
crossContext="true"
cookies="false" >
</Context>
</Host>
</Engine>
</Service>
</Server>
And the web.xml configuration in /opt/path/to/webapps/page/WEB-INF/:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd";>
<web-app>
<display-name>Page Application</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>mycompany</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
mycompany.PageProcessor
</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>debug</param-name>
<param-value>0</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>mycompany</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.ext</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
Conclusion:
My understanding from this configuration is that all requests on port
8010, that end with the extension .ext should be forwarded to the
servlet "mycompany". From what I've read, any paths created in the $
{APP_BASE} directory should be irrelevant in this mapping and all
logic comes from the web.xml file. My understanding appears to be
wrong and I would greatly appreciate being pointed in the right
direction.
Side Note:
This issue does not occur when hosted on windows for some reason, just
when on linux and Mac OS X.
Thank you in advance!
Terence.
