web.xml, Apache and url-pattern

["Kenneth R. Kress" <kk...@home.com>]

I've been searching the archives all night for an answer to this. I know this
issue has been answered before, but I just can't find it.

I'm trying to use the url-pattern in my context/WEB-INF/web.xml file to 
work. I can change the URL I use  *only* when using port 8080 to 
talk directly to tomcat. If I talk to Apache, the web.xml directives
seem to have no effect.

Here's a snippet from web.xml:
<web-app>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>
            AdminSrvlt
        </servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
            AdminSrvlt
        </servlet-class>
    </servlet>
        <servlet-mapping>
            <servlet-name>
                AdminSrvlt
            </servlet-name>
            <url-pattern>
                /cgi_bin
            </url-pattern>
        </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

This is in my $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml file: 

      <Context path="/intranet" 
                 docBase="webapps/intranet" 
                 debug="0" 
                 reloadable="true"> 
        </Context>

My tomcat-apache.conf is auto-generated and that's what's included
in my Apache httpd.conf file.

The following works:

http://localhost:8080/intranet/cgi_bin

but this fails:

http://localhost/intranet/cgi_bin

This also works (as you would expect): http://localhost/intranet/servlet/AdminSrvlt

What am I missing?

    Ken.

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Kenneth R. Kress                                kkress@home.com
                                      kkress@ospreypartners.com

Re: web.xml, Apache and url-pattern

["Craig R. McClanahan" <Cr...@eng.sun.com>]

I don't know if it will solve all your problems, but you might try a <url-pattern> of
"/cgi_bin/*" instead of "/cgi_bin".  The one you are using will only match if the user
specifies it exactly, while the one I suggested will match any context-relative path
that begins with "/cgi-bin".  This is important when you realize that Tomcat issues a
redirect from

    http://localhost/intranet/cgi_bin

to

    http://localhost/intranet/cgi_bin/

which does *not* match the url pattern you are using.

Craig McClanahan


"Kenneth R. Kress" wrote:

> I've been searching the archives all night for an answer to this. I know this
> issue has been answered before, but I just can't find it.
>
> I'm trying to use the url-pattern in my context/WEB-INF/web.xml file to
> work. I can change the URL I use  *only* when using port 8080 to
> talk directly to tomcat. If I talk to Apache, the web.xml directives
> seem to have no effect.
>
> Here's a snippet from web.xml:
> <web-app>
>     <servlet>
>         <servlet-name>
>             AdminSrvlt
>         </servlet-name>
>         <servlet-class>
>             AdminSrvlt
>         </servlet-class>
>     </servlet>
>         <servlet-mapping>
>             <servlet-name>
>                 AdminSrvlt
>             </servlet-name>
>             <url-pattern>
>                 /cgi_bin
>             </url-pattern>
>         </servlet-mapping>
> </web-app>
>
> This is in my $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml file:
>
>       <Context path="/intranet"
>                  docBase="webapps/intranet"
>                  debug="0"
>                  reloadable="true">
>         </Context>
>
> My tomcat-apache.conf is auto-generated and that's what's included
> in my Apache httpd.conf file.
>
> The following works:
>
> http://localhost:8080/intranet/cgi_bin
>
> but this fails:
>
> http://localhost/intranet/cgi_bin
>
> This also works (as you would expect): http://localhost/intranet/servlet/AdminSrvlt
>
> What am I missing?
>
>     Ken.
>
> --
> Kenneth R. Kress                                kkress@home.com
>                                       kkress@ospreypartners.com

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