Thanks for your feedback.

On 13 Feb 2009, at 05:04, Caldarale, Charles R wrote:

From: Stephen Winnall [mailto:st...@winnall.ch]
Subject: WebdavServlet + custom DirContext = unexpected behaviour

My Tomcat is as installed by NetBeans 6.5, that is
with a separate CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE.

I'd strongly recommend that you first learn how to run Tomcat directly, outside of any IDE, before muddying the picture with an extra layer of obfuscation. Problem solving will be much simpler.

Fair comment. So I have now installed Tomcat 6.0.18 from scratch.



I modified $CATALINA_BASE/conf/catalina.properties to make
common.loader look also in $CATALINA_BASE/common/lib and I
put DBDirContext and supporting cast into there.

Now you've already gone off the deep end; that's not something you should have to (or want to) do. By default, there is no common/lib in Tomcat 6.0, and you don't need to resurrect the past. Any jars or classes Tomcat needs access to should be in Tomcat's lib directory, nowhere else. If you provide a replacement for the default <Resources> handler, it must go into Tomcat's lib directory, since it's used by Tomcat, not the webapp.

I did originally put everything into $CATALINA_HOME/lib. However, I like to keep my stuff separate from the base product, which is why I had created a separate folder.

However, with my new installation I put DBDirContext and friends into $CATALINA_HOME/lib as you suggest.

When I started up the new installation, I got exactly the same behaviour as before.



The Tomcat documentation suggests that changing the
<Resources .../> to something other than the filesystem
results in Tomcat not being able to read files it needs:

Not true - it says the *webapp* won't be able to access the file system; it says nothing about Tomcat's ability to do so.

Thanks, that has cleared up an uncertainty for me.



do I have to make a hybrid DBDirContext that gets the
files Tomcat needs from the filesystem and the data I
want from the database?

I don't think so. Start over with a clean Tomat install (not the one bundled with the IDE) and go from there.

Done that and there's no change in behaviour. When I switch on the <Resources> handler, the OPTIONS request is apparently handled out of HttpServlet; when I switch it off, it is handled out of WebdavServlet.

Steve


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