RE: How to "start" a web app? - documentation suggestion.

[Da...@rnib.org.uk]

Proposed addition to the tomcat documentation that would do it for me.


"With the default setup, http://localhost:8080/index.html would
cause tomcat to seek a file index.html in directory
${catalina.home}/webapps/ROOT/index.html.

http://localhost:8080/myservlet would cause tomcat to seek 
a configuration file (web.xml) (more accurately the deployment descriptor)
in ${catalina.home}/webapps/myservlet/WEB-INF/

I.e. an application should be 'installed' directly within the
directory ${catalina.home}/webapps "
The class file for the servlet will normally be found in 
${catalina.home}/webapps/myservlet/WEB-INF/classes

This presumes the default setup, as tomcat is delivered."


I *think* the above is correct.

I guess I'm aiming at the newbie like me, taking tomcat out of the
box and hoping to have a servlet up and running quickly.
  (I'm not debating the fact that far more complex setups are possible
with tomcat :-)


HTH DaveP

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