On 3 Feb 2012, at 22:47, "André Warnier" <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
> Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >>> From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] >>> Subject: Re: How can I access tomcat's logs using my jsp? >> >>> - you can create a webapp named "tomcat-logs" (or whatever), just by >>> creating a new directory "tomcat-logs" (or whatever) under webapps. >> >> Nope. > Here I beg to differ. The statement above was entirely accurate. > This application won't do anything, and even less what the OP wanted, > but it will exist, and Tomcat will dispatch to it. Not if the context XML file under Tomcat/conf/<hostname> has a docBase pointing elsewhere, as you then describe below. p >>> - to protect access to it, you'll need a WEB-INF/web.xml, with some >>> security/auth constraints, just like any other protected application. >> >> That is needed. However, this WEB-INF directory and consequently the >> WEB-INF/web.xml file must be placed in Tomcat's log directory. >> >>> - you will need a META-INF/context.xml, specifying as docBase, the >>> directory where the logs really are. >> >> Nope, that won't work; docBase is not allowed when the webapp is inside the >> <Host> appBase directory. The <Context> element must be placed in >> conf/Catalina/[hostName]/[appName].xml, with the docBase pointing to the >> location of the logs directory. >> >>> - and you will need to specify somewhere, that for this directory, >>> Tomcat is allowed to generate a page with an index to the files. >> >> That's done by enabling the listings parameter for the DefaultServlet. The >> OP will need to copy the <servlet> tag and its sub-tags for the >> DefaultServlet from conf/web.xml to the log webapp's WEB-INF/web.xml and set >> the listings parameter to true. You do not want to enable the listings >> parameter in the global conf/web.xml for what should be obvious reasons. >> > > Thanks for rectifying my sloppy suggestions and providing the accurate > instructions. > In my defense, I will argue that my suggestions were made with good > intentions, that at > least the general idea was fine, and I will thus beg for the forgiveness of > the court. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
