Re: File structure in webapps for tomcat.

[David Brown <dw...@webitplanet.com>]

Simon Kelly writes: 

> Hi, 
> 
> I am trying to get my servlet to write to and read from files within my
> webapp structure.  However, when the servlet runs it seems that the working
> directory during its lifecycle is c:\xxx\tomcat 4.1.  Is there any way, in
> web.xml, to force the servlet to run in it's own app directory structure? 
> 
> Regards 
> 
> Simon 
> 
> 
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Hello Simon, servlets do run in their own webapp directory structure if 
defined in their own web.xml and deploy w/ and expanded .war file. u have 
not given enough info on what u have done in terms of deployment and what u 
r planning to do as a project goal. thanx, david. 


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Re: File structure in webapps for tomcat.

[Simon Kelly <ke...@ipe.fzk.de>]

Ah,

Ok.  What I have is a standard war file structure deployed in the
c:\programme\apache group\tomcat 4.1\webapps directory, with the servlet
held in WEB-INF/Classes and the web.xml set up as follows.

<web-app>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>
            main
        </servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
            FrontServlet
        </servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>
            main
        </servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>
            /katrinmain
        </url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

The war file is structure like this:

*.html (All my standard pages)
images/ (For all images I will be using)
queryfiles/  (These files are for searching a xml db and are the ones I am
trying to reference)
WEB-INF/  (Usual layout in here, with my servlets, libs, and extra classes)

Within the servlet I am running I need to open tempfiles, and open and read
the files within queryfiles/, it is this that I am having the problem with.
During the running of the servlet, I have done

File currentdir = File(".")

To get the current working directory (And as far as I know the directory the
servlet is running in) and then printted it to the screen.  It is showing
that the current directory is c:\programme\apache group\tomcat 4.1\.  Now,
if the servlet is running in its own directory I should see
c:\programme\apache group\tomcat 4.1\webapps\katrin\.  but I don't.  This is
where my problem comes as I need to access the files in c:\programme\apache
group\tomcat 4.1\webapps\katrin\queryfiles\  If the servlet current working
directory is tomcat, then I will need to tag the rest of the path onto the
end of the current working directory everytime.  This will not make the
portable web app that I need.

Cheers

Simon



----- Original Message -----
From: "David Brown" <dw...@webitplanet.com>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: File structure in webapps for tomcat.


> Simon Kelly writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to get my servlet to write to and read from files within my
> > webapp structure.  However, when the servlet runs it seems that the
working
> > directory during its lifecycle is c:\xxx\tomcat 4.1.  Is there any way,
in
> > web.xml, to force the servlet to run in it's own app directory
structure?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Simon
> >
> >
> > Institut fuer
> > Prozessdatenverarbeitung
> > und Elektronik,
> > Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH,
> > Postfach 3640,
> > D-76021 Karlsruhe,
> > Germany.
> >
> > Tel: (+49)/7247 82-4042
> > E-mail : kelly@ipe.fzk.de
> >
> >
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>
>
> Hello Simon, servlets do run in their own webapp directory structure if
> defined in their own web.xml and deploy w/ and expanded .war file. u have
> not given enough info on what u have done in terms of deployment and what
u
> r planning to do as a project goal. thanx, david.
>
>
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