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Posted to dev@nutch.apache.org by Michael Wechner <mi...@wyona.com> on 2005/04/16 11:32:25 UTC

Starting the webapp and finding the segments

Hi

According to the Tutorial

http://incubator.apache.org/nutch/tutorial.html#Searching

one needs to start the servlet container within the directory where the 
segments
directory is located.

Because I often forget this I receive a NullPointerException and then 
after some time
I remember that I started Tomcat from the wrong directory.

I think it would make sense if the segments directory could be specified 
within
the web.xml and also in case the segments directory cannot be found a 
"nice" Exception
would be thrown telling one what might be wrong.

WDYT?

Thanks

Michi

-- 
Michael Wechner
Wyona Inc.  -   Open Source Content Management   -   Apache Lenya
http://www.wyona.com                      http://lenya.apache.org
michael.wechner@wyona.com                        michi@apache.org

Re: Starting the webapp and finding the segments

Posted by Michael Wechner <mi...@wyona.com>.
Doug Cutting wrote:

> Michael Wechner wrote:
>
>> one needs to start the servlet container within the directory where 
>> the segments directory is located.
>>
>> Because I often forget this I receive a NullPointerException and then 
>> after some time I remember that I started Tomcat from the wrong 
>> directory.
>>
>> I think it would make sense if the segments directory could be 
>> specified within
>> the web.xml and also in case the segments directory cannot be found a 
>> "nice" Exception
>> would be thrown telling one what might be wrong.
>
>
> Sounds good to me.  Would you like to prepare a patch?


ok, will try to do so

Michi

>
> Doug
>


-- 
Michael Wechner
Wyona Inc.  -   Open Source Content Management   -   Apache Lenya
http://www.wyona.com                      http://lenya.apache.org
michael.wechner@wyona.com                        michi@apache.org

Re: Starting the webapp and finding the segments

Posted by Doug Cutting <cu...@nutch.org>.
Michael Wechner wrote:
> one needs to start the servlet container within the directory where the 
> segments directory is located.
> 
> Because I often forget this I receive a NullPointerException and then 
> after some time I remember that I started Tomcat from the wrong directory.
> 
> I think it would make sense if the segments directory could be specified 
> within
> the web.xml and also in case the segments directory cannot be found a 
> "nice" Exception
> would be thrown telling one what might be wrong.

Sounds good to me.  Would you like to prepare a patch?

Doug