> From: Patrick Flaherty [mailto:pflah...@rampageinc.com] > Subject: Re: servlet access to static resources (pictures) > > Based on my setup as described above which is not a war file but a > directory that we just plunk down into appBase, should I remove the > docBase parameter altogether (is that safe) or should it be there > set as docBase="" (empty) which is what I have seen in my readings > about <Context>.
The docBase attribute must *never* be set to an empty string - doing so creates all sorts of havoc. It can be omitted in almost all cases except when the webapp is located outside of the <Host> appBase directory. > One other item in my <Context> is path and it is set to path="" (is > that safe). The proper way to do this is remove the <Context> elements from server.xml. If you only have one webapp, name its directory (or .war file) ROOT (case-sensitive), under the <Host> appBase directory. The <Context> element, if needed, should be placed in [appBase]/ROOT/META-INF/context.xml, and must not contain path or docBase attributes. If there's nothing left in the <Context> element, you don't need it at all. > If this is the only app for this host should it be > set to path="/" (root) ? No, "/" is not the default webapp; "" is. But you shouldn't ever be setting path, anyway. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
