how does index.html come up?

[alex chang <sh...@yahoo.com>]

I just recently downloaded the tomcat 3.3m3 zip
to my Windows 2000 desktop.

When I go to http://localhost:8080, how does it 
know to go to the index.html file in my 
wepapps/ROOT directory? (I'm assuming this *is*
where it's going?)

In my server.xml file, I don't see a <Context>
tag like I've been reading about. But near the
end of that file it says something about how 
ContectXmlReader reads all the context definitions.

Near the top I do see: 
<ContectXmlReader config="conf/apps.xml">

But in that conf directory I don't see an
apps.xml. However I do see:

apps-127.0.0.1.xml
apps-admin.xml
apps-examples.xml

Is the apps-127.0.0.1.xml being read somehow?
Can someone explain the process of what happens
from the time you enter localhost:8080 in your
browser, to how the page gets served up?

Thanks!
-alex

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Re: how does index.html come up?

[Thomas Cherry <ce...@io.com>]

I have the same question, but I want to reproduce the action.  Say I 
have a servlet at pathtotomcat/WebApps/myServlet and I can access that 
servlet with http://localhost:8080/myServlet?.  What do I have to do so 
that I can access http://localhost:8080/mySelvlet/login.html and not 
have the server run?


On Thursday, June 21, 2001, at 05:55  PM, alex chang wrote:

> I just recently downloaded the tomcat 3.3m3 zip
> to my Windows 2000 desktop.
>
> When I go to http://localhost:8080, how does it
> know to go to the index.html file in my
> wepapps/ROOT directory? (I'm assuming this *is*
> where it's going?)
>
> In my server.xml file, I don't see a <Context>
> tag like I've been reading about. But near the
> end of that file it says something about how
> ContectXmlReader reads all the context definitions.
>
> Near the top I do see:
> <ContectXmlReader config="conf/apps.xml">
>
> But in that conf directory I don't see an
> apps.xml. However I do see:
>
> apps-127.0.0.1.xml
> apps-admin.xml
> apps-examples.xml
>
> Is the apps-127.0.0.1.xml being read somehow?
> Can someone explain the process of what happens
> from the time you enter localhost:8080 in your
> browser, to how the page gets served up?
>
> Thanks!
> -alex
>
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