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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by "Caldarale, Charles R" <Ch...@unisys.com> on 2008/01/10 01:59:27 UTC
RE: web.xml configured correctly, but still getting'404...resourcenot found'
> From: cuco2772 [mailto:poaa27@gmail.com]
> Subject: RE: web.xml configured correctly, but still
> getting'404...resourcenot found'
>
> This context.xml was the one in conf.
That explains why you had problems. The one in conf contains attributes
to be shared by *all* webapps; under no circumstances should it ever
contain any app-specific settings.
The other context.xml files define Tomcat-specific attributes for each
associated webapp that are needed for proper treatment of the webapp but
are not described in the servlet spec. Each container handles this a
bit differently.
Once upon a time, <Context> elements had to be in server.xml, which
required restarting Tomcat if anything needed changing. For the past
few years, Tomcat has made it possible to place <Context> elements in
webapp-specific locations, allowing changes with only a restart of the
particular webapp, not the whole container. Consequently, the path and
docBase attributes are no longer appropriate in most instances.
The <Context> doc is here:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html
- Chuck
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RE: web.xml configured correctly, but stillgetting'404...resourcenot found'
Posted by "Caldarale, Charles R" <Ch...@unisys.com>.
> From: cuco2772 [mailto:poaa27@gmail.com]
> Subject: RE: web.xml configured correctly, but
> stillgetting'404...resourcenot found'
>
> if you want Tomcat to behave a certain way for a particular
> webapp, you could edit context.xml files to get something
> different from the default behaviour.
Something in addition might be a better way of phrasing it. Any webapp
can have its own context.xml file, but most don't need one. If you look
at the attributes described here:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html
you'll see numerous factors that you might want to be different for
different webapps (e.g., cookies, cross-context, privileged,
cacheMaxSize). Note that if a webapp is deployed in a location other
than under the <Host> appBase directory, you must have a <Context>
element for it in conf/Catalina/[hostName]/[appName].xml that contains a
docBase attribute pointing to the location of the webapp; that's the
only situation where docBase should be used.
- Chuck
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RE: web.xml configured correctly, but still
getting'404...resourcenot found'
Posted by cuco2772 <po...@gmail.com>.
Thanks a lot, Chuck. So I think I can infer from what youre saying is that
for the other 2 context.xml's,
if you want Tomcat to behave a certain way for a particular webapp, you
could edit context.xml files
to get something different from the default behaviour. In what type of
situation might you want to do
something like that, I mean what kind of situation would compel you to want
to edit one of those
context.xmls ? Anyway, thanks a bunch for the help. This is the most
helpful forum I'v been on.
You guys rock !
-adam
Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
>
>> From: cuco2772 [mailto:poaa27@gmail.com]
>> Subject: RE: web.xml configured correctly, but still
>> getting'404...resourcenot found'
>>
>> This context.xml was the one in conf.
>
> That explains why you had problems. The one in conf contains attributes
> to be shared by *all* webapps; under no circumstances should it ever
> contain any app-specific settings.
>
> The other context.xml files define Tomcat-specific attributes for each
> associated webapp that are needed for proper treatment of the webapp but
> are not described in the servlet spec. Each container handles this a
> bit differently.
>
> Once upon a time, <Context> elements had to be in server.xml, which
> required restarting Tomcat if anything needed changing. For the past
> few years, Tomcat has made it possible to place <Context> elements in
> webapp-specific locations, allowing changes with only a restart of the
> particular webapp, not the whole container. Consequently, the path and
> docBase attributes are no longer appropriate in most instances.
>
> The <Context> doc is here:
> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html
>
> - Chuck
>
>
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