Re: ServletContext.getContext() always returns when calling from "root" context (even with crossContext)

[Pid <pi...@pidster.com>]

On 28/08/2009 09:57, Jan Jonas wrote:
> I have a very annoying problem with tomcat 6:
>
> ServletContext.getContext() always returns null if I call the method from the "root" context, i.e. the context I have defined with path="/" in my server.xml. I also tried setting path="" (I read that this could fix problems in tomcat 5 - I'm using tomcat6 but a thought it might help).
>
> Here are the context definitions of my server.xml:
>
>                  <Context path="/context2" docBase="/absolute/path/to/a/folder/" />
>                  <Context path="/ " docBase="..." crossContext="true" reloadable="true"/>

Eww.

The ROOT webapp is defined with path="" not path="/"

Is there a particular reason why you're defining your Context in server.xml?

It looks like you've got an config copied from an old Tomcat. These days 
it's generally encouraged to define a Context in a META-INF/context.xml 
file in your webapp instead, (unless there are extenuating 
circumstances) - you don't then need to define 'path' or 'docBase', 
Tomcat handles the rest.


> I also tried defining both contexts with crossContext="true".
> If a change the path from the second context to something else than "/" or "" everything works fine. Is this a tomcat bug?

No, I don't think so.

> My workaround now is to use apache's mod_rewrite to handle requests on "/".

Probably just need to tweak your config instead.

p

> Regards
>    Jan
>


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