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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Paul landolt <la...@royalsys.com> on 2002/07/08 17:21:53 UTC

Tomcat 4.0.4 and relative path includes.

My mistake, that was Tomcat v4.0.4, not v 4.0.3

Paul landolt wrote:

> Hello All. I am a New poster, so I hope I'm following proper protocol.
>
> I am having trouble with relative path @includes in Tomcat 4.0.3.  An
> include from the same directory is fine, as is an include from a
> sub-directory, like so:
>
> <%@include file="inc.jsp"%>
> <%@include file="test2/inc.jsp"%>
>
> However, trying to include from a higher directory generates a JSP
> compile error. The JSP code:
>
>     <%@include file="../inc.jsp"%>
>
> generates the following error message:
>
>     org.apache.jasper.compiler.CompileException:
> /testdir/test2/index.jsp(5,0) File "../inc.jsp" not found
>
> (There's lots more to the dump, but I didn't think it was pertinent. And
> yes, the file IS there)
>
> So, here are my questions:
>
> 1) Is this a known issue? Have other people encountered this?
> 2) Is this a bug or a Spec feature? If a bug is there a bug report
> pending on this?
> 3) Is there a viable workaround for this?
> 4) Is there a mechanism in JSP to determine the current directory (and
> therefor build up an absolute path)?
>
> Thanks
>
>     ...Paul
>
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