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html entities and urls with spaces
Hello,
I am having some issues with tomcat not displaying pages or files with
spaces in them, it simply 404s. Something like this:
pdf file on filesystem.pdf
being accessed at:
http://server/pdf%20file%20on%20filesystem.pdf
fails to display.
I am migrating this site from an older RHEL server where it works
fine. I am migrating to a Debian server with up to date Debian
packages of apache2, tomcat5, and java6.
I am using tomcat5 because the webapp had some odd html entity issues
with tomcat5.5 and tomcat6 that I was not able to resolve, moving to
tomcat5 fixed the issues with entities in the page content itself. I
am not certain that the page content html entity issues and the urls
with spaces issues are related, but it seems like they may be?
To check that this was a tomcat (and not an apache issue, as I am
JkMounting the site to tomcat ) issue I tested accessing items with
spaces with apache and that worked fine.
Any one have any thoughts on this?
Brendan Martens
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Re: html entities and urls with spaces
Posted by Brendan Martens <br...@crosscomm.net>.
> does "fails to display." mean 404 or do you get a file to download and
> fail to render it on the client side(browser)?
Means it 404s.
> for the 404 make sure the files are located there where tomcat/your
> app looks for them
They are indeed where it's looking for them. When I change the name of
the file from "file with spaces.html" to "file%20with%20spaces.html"
the browser is able to find it just fine.
Brendan Martens
Server Administrator
CrossComm, Inc.
919.667.9432 ofc
919.688.7686 fax
www.crosscomm.net
On Sep 10, 2008, at 9:21 PM, Yassine wrote:
> Hi
>
> does "fails to display." mean 404 or do you get a file to download and
> fail to render it on the client side(browser)?
>
> for the 404 make sure the files are located there where tomcat/your
> app looks for them
> for the second case check the http header sent with the pdf file.
>
> Cheers
> Yassine
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Brendan Martens
> <br...@crosscomm.net> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am having some issues with tomcat not displaying pages or files
>> with
>> spaces in them, it simply 404s. Something like this:
>>
>> pdf file on filesystem.pdf
>>
>> being accessed at:
>>
>> http://server/pdf%20file%20on%20filesystem.pdf
>>
>> fails to display.
>>
>> I am migrating this site from an older RHEL server where it works
>> fine. I am
>> migrating to a Debian server with up to date Debian packages of
>> apache2,
>> tomcat5, and java6.
>>
>> I am using tomcat5 because the webapp had some odd html entity
>> issues with
>> tomcat5.5 and tomcat6 that I was not able to resolve, moving to
>> tomcat5
>> fixed the issues with entities in the page content itself. I am not
>> certain
>> that the page content html entity issues and the urls with spaces
>> issues are
>> related, but it seems like they may be?
>>
>> To check that this was a tomcat (and not an apache issue, as I am
>> JkMounting
>> the site to tomcat ) issue I tested accessing items with spaces
>> with apache
>> and that worked fine.
>>
>> Any one have any thoughts on this?
>>
>> Brendan Martens
>>
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Re: html entities and urls with spaces
Posted by Yassine <ya...@gmail.com>.
Hi
does "fails to display." mean 404 or do you get a file to download and
fail to render it on the client side(browser)?
for the 404 make sure the files are located there where tomcat/your
app looks for them
for the second case check the http header sent with the pdf file.
Cheers
Yassine
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Brendan Martens
<br...@crosscomm.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having some issues with tomcat not displaying pages or files with
> spaces in them, it simply 404s. Something like this:
>
> pdf file on filesystem.pdf
>
> being accessed at:
>
> http://server/pdf%20file%20on%20filesystem.pdf
>
> fails to display.
>
> I am migrating this site from an older RHEL server where it works fine. I am
> migrating to a Debian server with up to date Debian packages of apache2,
> tomcat5, and java6.
>
> I am using tomcat5 because the webapp had some odd html entity issues with
> tomcat5.5 and tomcat6 that I was not able to resolve, moving to tomcat5
> fixed the issues with entities in the page content itself. I am not certain
> that the page content html entity issues and the urls with spaces issues are
> related, but it seems like they may be?
>
> To check that this was a tomcat (and not an apache issue, as I am JkMounting
> the site to tomcat ) issue I tested accessing items with spaces with apache
> and that worked fine.
>
> Any one have any thoughts on this?
>
> Brendan Martens
>
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Re: html entities and urls with spaces
Posted by André Warnier <aw...@ice-sa.com>.
Brendan Martens wrote:
[...]
>>>
>>> I am migrating this site from an older RHEL server where it works fine.
>>> I am migrating to a Debian server with up to date Debian packages of
>>> apache2, tomcat5, and java6.
>>
For all their perceived faults, it is unlikely that Debian packagers
would package mutually incompatible versions of Apache, Tomcat, Java,
and mod_jk. They may do funny things with the locations of files, but
incompatible versions is something I have not seen often yet.
As to "up-to-date", that is another question. The versions of Apache,
Tomcat, Java and mod_jk might not be the latest ones available on the
respective "original" sites for all these packages. (*)
So it might help if you tracked down which exact version of each is
really installed on your system, and listed them.
Like :
uname -a
java -version
for the version of Apache and mod_jk, look at the first line that Apache
writes to it error.log file when it starts.
For the precise version of Tomcat ?...
This being said, for Apache/mod_jk/Tomcat, the respective probabilities
of configuration errors versus incompatible versions would be something
like 100 to 1.
(*) That is because it takes time and work to prepare packages, and make
sure that the individual components that are supposed to work together
really do. And by the time that is done, it might well be that a new
original version of one of the individual packages has come to be available.
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Re: Tomcat clustering: Don't see Cluster MBean
Posted by Landry Stephane Zeng Eyindanga <LA...@BULL.NET>.
Mark Thomas a écrit :
> Landry Stephane Zeng Eyindanga wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I am trying to use a tomcat6 cluster. I've just set my configuration
>> (with two tomcat nodes) just as indicated in the tomcat clustering guide
>> (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/cluster-howto.html).
>> Unfortunately, I see all MBeans that I should see, but the Cluster MBean
>> (|type=Cluster,host=${HOST}|).
>> I'm in a urge, I'm working on an application that needs this MBean, or a
>> cluster dedicated one.
>> Is it a bug ? what should I do ?
>>
>
> Please do not hijack threads.
>
>
sorry
> Mark
>
>
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Re: Tomcat clustering: Don't see Cluster MBean
Posted by Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>.
Landry Stephane Zeng Eyindanga wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to use a tomcat6 cluster. I've just set my configuration
> (with two tomcat nodes) just as indicated in the tomcat clustering guide
> (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/cluster-howto.html).
> Unfortunately, I see all MBeans that I should see, but the Cluster MBean
> (|type=Cluster,host=${HOST}|).
> I'm in a urge, I'm working on an application that needs this MBean, or a
> cluster dedicated one.
> Is it a bug ? what should I do ?
Please do not hijack threads.
Mark
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Re: Tomcat clustering: Don't see Cluster MBean
Posted by André Warnier <aw...@ice-sa.com>.
Hi Landry Stephane.
"Hijacking a thread" usually means hitting the "reply" button on a forum
message, leave the subject as it was, and then ask a totally unrelated
question in the message.
You should not do that, because it is confusing for people who try to
help the original poster of the original question, and because it also
confuses users who try to follow a conversation.
What you did here however was not really hijacking a thread, since you
also changed the subject of the messsage.
But you left the original message in, and just asked your new unrelated
question below.
I don't know if there is an official jargon term for that.
But it is totally confusing also, and your chances of getting an answer
are severely diminished.
So why do you not start a totally new message, with the correct subject
and content, and let's see from there, yes ?
Landry Stephane Zeng Eyindanga wrote:
> Mark Thomas a écrit :
>> Brendan Martens wrote:
>>
>>> Hmmm, here are my jk settings:
>>>
>>> JKWorkersFile /etc/libapache2-mod-jk/workers.properties
>>> JkLogFile /var/log/apache2/mod_jk.log
>>> JkLogLevel info
>>> JkShmFile /var/log/apache2/mod_jk.shm
>>> JkOptions +ForwardURICompatUnparsed
>>>
>>
>> That value of JkOptions should be OK.
>>
>>
>>> The JK connector is the one from the mod_jk debian package. Could that
>>> be an issue if it was not compiled for the write version of tomcat? I'm
>>> not really sure how the jk connector builds work.
>>>
>>
>> If the debian docs don't tell you what version they are using then your
>> guess is as good as mine.
>>
>> >From what you say this is easy to repeat. Have you tried accessing
>> the same
>> file directly on Tomcat? Another option is to enable access logging in
>> httpd and Tomcat and turn up the mod_jk log level to debug, run the test
>> and analyse the results. It should be obvious quite quickly where it id
>> going wrong.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
> Hi all,
> I am trying to use a tomcat6 cluster. I've just set my configuration
> (with two tomcat nodes) just as indicated in the tomcat clustering guide
> (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/cluster-howto.html).
> Unfortunately, I see all MBeans that I should see, but the Cluster MBean
> (|type=Cluster,host=${HOST}|).
> I'm in a urge, I'm working on an application that needs this MBean, or a
> cluster dedicated one.
> Is it a bug ? what should I do ?
>
>
>
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Tomcat clustering: Don't see Cluster MBean
Posted by Landry Stephane Zeng Eyindanga <LA...@BULL.NET>.
Mark Thomas a écrit :
> Brendan Martens wrote:
>
>> Hmmm, here are my jk settings:
>>
>> JKWorkersFile /etc/libapache2-mod-jk/workers.properties
>> JkLogFile /var/log/apache2/mod_jk.log
>> JkLogLevel info
>> JkShmFile /var/log/apache2/mod_jk.shm
>> JkOptions +ForwardURICompatUnparsed
>>
>
> That value of JkOptions should be OK.
>
>
>> The JK connector is the one from the mod_jk debian package. Could that
>> be an issue if it was not compiled for the write version of tomcat? I'm
>> not really sure how the jk connector builds work.
>>
>
> If the debian docs don't tell you what version they are using then your
> guess is as good as mine.
>
> >From what you say this is easy to repeat. Have you tried accessing the same
> file directly on Tomcat? Another option is to enable access logging in
> httpd and Tomcat and turn up the mod_jk log level to debug, run the test
> and analyse the results. It should be obvious quite quickly where it id
> going wrong.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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Hi all,
I am trying to use a tomcat6 cluster. I've just set my configuration
(with two tomcat nodes) just as indicated in the tomcat clustering guide
(http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/cluster-howto.html).
Unfortunately, I see all MBeans that I should see, but the Cluster MBean
(|type=Cluster,host=${HOST}|).
I'm in a urge, I'm working on an application that needs this MBean, or a
cluster dedicated one.
Is it a bug ? what should I do ?
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Re: html entities and urls with spaces
Posted by Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>.
Brendan Martens wrote:
> Hmmm, here are my jk settings:
>
> JKWorkersFile /etc/libapache2-mod-jk/workers.properties
> JkLogFile /var/log/apache2/mod_jk.log
> JkLogLevel info
> JkShmFile /var/log/apache2/mod_jk.shm
> JkOptions +ForwardURICompatUnparsed
That value of JkOptions should be OK.
> The JK connector is the one from the mod_jk debian package. Could that
> be an issue if it was not compiled for the write version of tomcat? I'm
> not really sure how the jk connector builds work.
If the debian docs don't tell you what version they are using then your
guess is as good as mine.
>From what you say this is easy to repeat. Have you tried accessing the same
file directly on Tomcat? Another option is to enable access logging in
httpd and Tomcat and turn up the mod_jk log level to debug, run the test
and analyse the results. It should be obvious quite quickly where it id
going wrong.
Mark
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Re: html entities and urls with spaces
Posted by Brendan Martens <br...@crosscomm.net>.
Hmmm, here are my jk settings:
JKWorkersFile /etc/libapache2-mod-jk/workers.properties
JkLogFile /var/log/apache2/mod_jk.log
JkLogLevel info
JkShmFile /var/log/apache2/mod_jk.shm
JkOptions +ForwardURICompatUnparsed
The JK connector is the one from the mod_jk debian package. Could that
be an issue if it was not compiled for the write version of tomcat?
I'm not really sure how the jk connector builds work.
Brendan Martens
Server Administrator
CrossComm, Inc.
919.667.9432 ofc
919.688.7686 fax
www.crosscomm.net
On Sep 11, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Mark Thomas wrote:
> Brendan Martens wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am having some issues with tomcat not displaying pages or files
>> with
>> spaces in them, it simply 404s. Something like this:
>>
>> pdf file on filesystem.pdf
>>
>> being accessed at:
>>
>> http://server/pdf%20file%20on%20filesystem.pdf
>>
>> fails to display.
>>
>> I am migrating this site from an older RHEL server where it works
>> fine.
>> I am migrating to a Debian server with up to date Debian packages of
>> apache2, tomcat5, and java6.
>
> Wrong setting for JkOptions?
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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Re: html entities and urls with spaces
Posted by Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>.
Brendan Martens wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having some issues with tomcat not displaying pages or files with
> spaces in them, it simply 404s. Something like this:
>
> pdf file on filesystem.pdf
>
> being accessed at:
>
> http://server/pdf%20file%20on%20filesystem.pdf
>
> fails to display.
>
> I am migrating this site from an older RHEL server where it works fine.
> I am migrating to a Debian server with up to date Debian packages of
> apache2, tomcat5, and java6.
Wrong setting for JkOptions?
Mark
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[OT] Filesystems allowing spaces (was RE: html entities and urls
with spaces)
Posted by Peter Crowther <Pe...@melandra.com>.
> From: André Warnier [mailto:aw@ice-sa.com]
> Whichever bright developer invented the first filesystem
> allowing spaces in filenames should be found and shot.
You'd have to go a long way back - UNIX has had them at least since I started using it*. Besides, users love 'em - it's just us command-line types who have problems.
- Peter
* I'm a latecomer - mid-1980s
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Re: html entities and urls with spaces
Posted by André Warnier <aw...@ice-sa.com>.
Brendan Martens wrote:
>> most file systems cant read spaces in a filename so you should put in
>> _ where you see spaces
>
> Hmmm, not sure this is the issue, both filesystems can read and write
> files with spaces.
>
Whichever bright developer invented the first filesystem allowing spaces
in filenames should be found and shot.
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RE: html entities and urls with spaces
Posted by "Caldarale, Charles R" <Ch...@unisys.com>.
> From: Brendan Martens [mailto:brendan.martens@crosscomm.net]
> Subject: Re: html entities and urls with spaces
>
> Hmmm, not sure this is the issue, both filesystems can read and write
> files with spaces.
It's certainly not the issue - spaces in file names work fine on my Windows box with Tomcat.
> I really need to figure out a way to not rename all the files...
Your original message indicated you might be front-ending Tomcat with httpd; what happens if you send the URL with the %20 encoding direct to Tomcat? I have no trouble doing so on my systems (but I don't have a Linux box available at the moment).
Try turning on Tomcat's RequestDumperValve in server.xml; perhaps your front end is decoding the URL, so all Tomcat sees is the part up to the first space.
- Chuck
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Re: html entities and urls with spaces
Posted by Brendan Martens <br...@crosscomm.net>.
> most file systems cant read spaces in a filename so you should put
> in _ where you see spaces
Hmmm, not sure this is the issue, both filesystems can read and write
files with spaces.
> should be renamed to
> $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/pdfApp/pdf_file_on_filesystem.pdf
I really need to figure out a way to not rename all the files... If I
could I would not allow the spaces of course, but it's already done. :
( So now I need to figure out how to make this work on the new server
as well.
Brendan Martens
On Sep 10, 2008, at 8:32 PM, Martin Gainty wrote:
> Brendan
>
> most file systems cant read spaces in a filename so you should put
> in _ where you see spaces
> e.g.
> http://localhost:8080/pdfApp/pdf%20file%20on%20filesystem.pdf
> should be renamed to
> $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/pdfApp/pdf_file_on_filesystem.pdf
>
> HTH
> Martin
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> > From: brendan.martens@crosscomm.net
> > To: users@tomcat.apache.org
> > Subject: html entities and urls with spaces
> > Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:41:56 -0400
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am having some issues with tomcat not displaying pages or files
> with
> > spaces in them, it simply 404s. Something like this:
> >
> > pdf file on filesystem.pdf
> >
> > being accessed at:
> >
> > http://server/pdf%20file%20on%20filesystem.pdf
> >
> > fails to display.
> >
> > I am migrating this site from an older RHEL server where it works
> > fine. I am migrating to a Debian server with up to date Debian
> > packages of apache2, tomcat5, and java6.
> >
> > I am using tomcat5 because the webapp had some odd html entity
> issues
> > with tomcat5.5 and tomcat6 that I was not able to resolve, moving to
> > tomcat5 fixed the issues with entities in the page content itself. I
> > am not certain that the page content html entity issues and the urls
> > with spaces issues are related, but it seems like they may be?
> >
> > To check that this was a tomcat (and not an apache issue, as I am
> > JkMounting the site to tomcat ) issue I tested accessing items with
> > spaces with apache and that worked fine.
> >
> > Any one have any thoughts on this?
> >
> > Brendan Martens
> >
> >
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