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Context element problems in conf/server.xml
Hi
I posted a problem a couple of days ago which I've made some progress with.
Originally my webapp ROOT.war would not unpack. I've figured out the
problem was with the Context element as shown below
<Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
<Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
value="dev.andrew"/>
</Context>
If I unpacked ROOT.war manually then my application worked fine.
By adding a forward slash to the path attribute as shown below
<Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
<Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
value="dev.andrew"/>
</Context>
tomcat now unpacks the WAR fine. However, my application no longer
starts because it cannot find the 'servername'! Yikes!
Does anybody have any suggestions please?
Thanks again
Andrew
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Re: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
Posted by Andoni <an...@eurokom.ie>.
Hi Andrew,
Definitely cleaning up Server.xml to remove all those confusing comments and
commented out sections is a great idea. I'd also suggest you change all XML
tags to be on one line each and indent the whole file properly if you
haven't already done so.
I must admit that I have no idea why it is requiring you to use the path="/"
attribute with the forward slash. The very first option looks fine to me.
Have you tried not using "servername" as the name of your env. variable, if
that is in fact what you are using? It may be conflicting with something
else.
Other things you might try, if you don't want to just leave well enough
alone! Are:
1. Try setting up a second <Host>, leave the one that's there alone but set
up <Host name="www.joebloggs.com" and configure that up. Then add it to your
LMHOSTS file in the Windows/system32 directory.
2. Change the name of the <Environment variable to servername2 and see if
it's a conflict issue.
3. Leave well enough alone!
Sorry I could not help any further.
Rgds,
Andoni.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Watters" <an...@gointernet.co.uk>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
> Thanks again. That works great, I'm accessing my webapp fine as the
> default webapp with the following
>
> <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" debug="9">
> <Host name="localhost" debug="9" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true"
> autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
> <Context path="" docBase="pets-proper" debug="9">
> <Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
> value="dev.andrew" override="false"/>
> </Context>
> </Host>
> </Engine>
>
> However, my application can't find the 'servername' environment property
> again!
>
> The combinations I've tried (each one three times to be sure) and their
> behaviour
>
> path="", docBase="xxx", WAR named xxx.war --- WAR is unpacked, webapp
> starts but property not found
> path="/", docBase="xxx", WAR named xxx.war --- WAR is unpacked, webapp
> starts but property not found
> path="", docBase="ROOT", WAR named ROOT.war --- WAR is not unpacked,
> webapp does not start
> path="/", docBase="ROOT", WAR named ROOT.war --- WAR is unpacked, webapp
> starts and property found!
>
> I'm now really confused. The last option was where I came in! This
> didn't work previously and now does. I really wish that I understood
> tomcats behaviour. The only other change is that I've cleaned up my
> server.xml file but only to remove comments and commented out sections.
>
> Andoni, thank you for your replies. Does this make any sense at all to
> you? If I have the time I'll take a look at the tomcat source but
> deadlines are looming at the moment... For the moment I have my fingers
> crossed (not my favourite policy) that all will keep working.
>
> Regards
> Andrew
>
>
> Andoni wrote:
>
> >Yes, you can have any xxx.war that you access from
> >http://localhost/login.jsp so long as it's path="" and it is the only
> >context in that <Host> which has path="". This is what makes it the
default
> >app.
> >
> >Andoni.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Andrew Watters" <an...@gointernet.co.uk>
> >Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
> >Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 5:00 PM
> >Subject: Re: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Hi Andoni
> >>
> >>Thanks again for your reply.
> >>
> >>I hope I'm understanding what you say correctly, apologies if not. If I
> >>rename my WAR to say, app.war, then to access a page the URL would
> >>become http://localhost/app/login.jsp. The reason why I changed the
> >>appBase to ROOT and renamed my WAR ROOT.war was so that the URL would be
> >>http://localhost/login.jsp. This is a customer directive.
> >>
> >>Is the problem that I'm going about this the wrong way in the first
> >>place? Can I have an app.war and access it like
> >>
> >>
> >http://localhost/login.jsp?
> >
> >
> >>Best regards
> >>Andrew
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Andoni wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Ok, You can ignore the <logger>'s and <valve>'s when you are worrying
> >>>
> >>>
> >about
> >
> >
> >>>configuration. So what you are left with is:
> >>>
> >>><Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" debug="9">
> >>><Host name="localhost" debug="9" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true"
> >>>autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
> >>> <Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
> >>> </Context>
> >>></Host>
> >>></Engine>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>What you have to be aware of is that "ROOT" is more than just another
> >>>
> >>>
> >name
> >
> >
> >>>for a webapp. ROOT is a special name for the default webapp in a host.
> >>>Therefore what you should do is to remove all references to root.
Comment
> >>>out this line of the server.xml, call your .war file something else and
> >>>
> >>>
> >set
> >
> >
> >>>the path="".
> >>>
> >>>Regards,
> >>>Andoni.
> >>>
> >>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>From: "Andrew Watters" <an...@gointernet.co.uk>
> >>>Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
> >>>Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 11:30 AM
> >>>Subject: Re: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Thanks for your reply. Please find below the tags as requested. Thank
> >>>>you for taking the time.
> >>>>
> >>>><Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" debug="9">
> >>>> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve"/>
> >>>> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
> >>>>prefix="catalina_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/>
> >>>> <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"
> >>>>debug="9" resourceName="UserDatabase"/>
> >>>> <Host name="localhost" debug="9" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true"
> >>>>autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
> >>>> <Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
> >>>> <Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
> >>>>value="dev.andrew" override="false"/>
> >>>> </Context>
> >>>> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
> >>>>directory="logs" prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
> >>>>pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/>
> >>>> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
> >>>>directory="logs" prefix="localhost_log." suffix=".txt"
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >timestamp="true"/>
> >
> >
> >>>> </Host>
> >>>></Engine>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Andoni wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Hello,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>You certainly don't need the "/" in the path attribute. This is not
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >going
> >
> >
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>to
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>work as it cannot match just one slash.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Would you please post the <Engine> <Host> and <Context> tags. They
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >should
> >
> >
> >>>>>all be seen as a group to know exactly what's being called.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Andoni.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>>>From: "Andrew Watters" <an...@gointernet.co.uk>
> >>>>>Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
> >>>>>Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 4:19 PM
> >>>>>Subject: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Hi
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>I posted a problem a couple of days ago which I've made some
progress
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>with.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Originally my webapp ROOT.war would not unpack. I've figured out the
> >>>>>>problem was with the Context element as shown below
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>><Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
> >>>>>><Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
> >>>>>>value="dev.andrew"/>
> >>>>>></Context>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>If I unpacked ROOT.war manually then my application worked fine.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>By adding a forward slash to the path attribute as shown below
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>><Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
> >>>>>><Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
> >>>>>>value="dev.andrew"/>
> >>>>>></Context>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>tomcat now unpacks the WAR fine. However, my application no longer
> >>>>>>starts because it cannot find the 'servername'! Yikes!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Does anybody have any suggestions please?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Thanks again
> >>>>>>Andrew
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
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> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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Re: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
Posted by Andrew Watters <an...@gointernet.co.uk>.
Thanks again. That works great, I'm accessing my webapp fine as the
default webapp with the following
<Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" debug="9">
<Host name="localhost" debug="9" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true"
autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
<Context path="" docBase="pets-proper" debug="9">
<Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
value="dev.andrew" override="false"/>
</Context>
</Host>
</Engine>
However, my application can't find the 'servername' environment property
again!
The combinations I've tried (each one three times to be sure) and their
behaviour
path="", docBase="xxx", WAR named xxx.war --- WAR is unpacked, webapp
starts but property not found
path="/", docBase="xxx", WAR named xxx.war --- WAR is unpacked, webapp
starts but property not found
path="", docBase="ROOT", WAR named ROOT.war --- WAR is not unpacked,
webapp does not start
path="/", docBase="ROOT", WAR named ROOT.war --- WAR is unpacked, webapp
starts and property found!
I'm now really confused. The last option was where I came in! This
didn't work previously and now does. I really wish that I understood
tomcats behaviour. The only other change is that I've cleaned up my
server.xml file but only to remove comments and commented out sections.
Andoni, thank you for your replies. Does this make any sense at all to
you? If I have the time I'll take a look at the tomcat source but
deadlines are looming at the moment... For the moment I have my fingers
crossed (not my favourite policy) that all will keep working.
Regards
Andrew
Andoni wrote:
>Yes, you can have any xxx.war that you access from
>http://localhost/login.jsp so long as it's path="" and it is the only
>context in that <Host> which has path="". This is what makes it the default
>app.
>
>Andoni.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andrew Watters" <an...@gointernet.co.uk>
>Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
>Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 5:00 PM
>Subject: Re: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
>
>
>
>
>>Hi Andoni
>>
>>Thanks again for your reply.
>>
>>I hope I'm understanding what you say correctly, apologies if not. If I
>>rename my WAR to say, app.war, then to access a page the URL would
>>become http://localhost/app/login.jsp. The reason why I changed the
>>appBase to ROOT and renamed my WAR ROOT.war was so that the URL would be
>>http://localhost/login.jsp. This is a customer directive.
>>
>>Is the problem that I'm going about this the wrong way in the first
>>place? Can I have an app.war and access it like
>>
>>
>http://localhost/login.jsp?
>
>
>>Best regards
>>Andrew
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Andoni wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Ok, You can ignore the <logger>'s and <valve>'s when you are worrying
>>>
>>>
>about
>
>
>>>configuration. So what you are left with is:
>>>
>>><Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" debug="9">
>>><Host name="localhost" debug="9" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true"
>>>autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
>>> <Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
>>> </Context>
>>></Host>
>>></Engine>
>>>
>>>
>>>What you have to be aware of is that "ROOT" is more than just another
>>>
>>>
>name
>
>
>>>for a webapp. ROOT is a special name for the default webapp in a host.
>>>Therefore what you should do is to remove all references to root. Comment
>>>out this line of the server.xml, call your .war file something else and
>>>
>>>
>set
>
>
>>>the path="".
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Andoni.
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Andrew Watters" <an...@gointernet.co.uk>
>>>Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
>>>Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 11:30 AM
>>>Subject: Re: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Thanks for your reply. Please find below the tags as requested. Thank
>>>>you for taking the time.
>>>>
>>>><Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" debug="9">
>>>> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve"/>
>>>> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
>>>>prefix="catalina_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/>
>>>> <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"
>>>>debug="9" resourceName="UserDatabase"/>
>>>> <Host name="localhost" debug="9" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true"
>>>>autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
>>>> <Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
>>>> <Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
>>>>value="dev.andrew" override="false"/>
>>>> </Context>
>>>> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
>>>>directory="logs" prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
>>>>pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/>
>>>> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
>>>>directory="logs" prefix="localhost_log." suffix=".txt"
>>>>
>>>>
>timestamp="true"/>
>
>
>>>> </Host>
>>>></Engine>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Andoni wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>>You certainly don't need the "/" in the path attribute. This is not
>>>>>
>>>>>
>going
>
>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>to
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>work as it cannot match just one slash.
>>>>>
>>>>>Would you please post the <Engine> <Host> and <Context> tags. They
>>>>>
>>>>>
>should
>
>
>>>>>all be seen as a group to know exactly what's being called.
>>>>>
>>>>>Andoni.
>>>>>
>>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>>>From: "Andrew Watters" <an...@gointernet.co.uk>
>>>>>Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
>>>>>Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 4:19 PM
>>>>>Subject: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I posted a problem a couple of days ago which I've made some progress
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>with.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Originally my webapp ROOT.war would not unpack. I've figured out the
>>>>>>problem was with the Context element as shown below
>>>>>>
>>>>>><Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
>>>>>><Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
>>>>>>value="dev.andrew"/>
>>>>>></Context>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>If I unpacked ROOT.war manually then my application worked fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>By adding a forward slash to the path attribute as shown below
>>>>>>
>>>>>><Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
>>>>>><Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
>>>>>>value="dev.andrew"/>
>>>>>></Context>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>tomcat now unpacks the WAR fine. However, my application no longer
>>>>>>starts because it cannot find the 'servername'! Yikes!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Does anybody have any suggestions please?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks again
>>>>>>Andrew
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>>>>For additional commands, e-mail: tomcat-user-help@jakarta.apache.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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Re: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
Posted by Andoni <an...@eurokom.ie>.
Yes, you can have any xxx.war that you access from
http://localhost/login.jsp so long as it's path="" and it is the only
context in that <Host> which has path="". This is what makes it the default
app.
Andoni.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Watters" <an...@gointernet.co.uk>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
> Hi Andoni
>
> Thanks again for your reply.
>
> I hope I'm understanding what you say correctly, apologies if not. If I
> rename my WAR to say, app.war, then to access a page the URL would
> become http://localhost/app/login.jsp. The reason why I changed the
> appBase to ROOT and renamed my WAR ROOT.war was so that the URL would be
> http://localhost/login.jsp. This is a customer directive.
>
> Is the problem that I'm going about this the wrong way in the first
> place? Can I have an app.war and access it like
http://localhost/login.jsp?
>
> Best regards
> Andrew
>
>
>
>
> Andoni wrote:
>
> >Ok, You can ignore the <logger>'s and <valve>'s when you are worrying
about
> >configuration. So what you are left with is:
> >
> ><Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" debug="9">
> > <Host name="localhost" debug="9" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true"
> >autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
> > <Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
> > </Context>
> > </Host>
> ></Engine>
> >
> >
> >What you have to be aware of is that "ROOT" is more than just another
name
> >for a webapp. ROOT is a special name for the default webapp in a host.
> >Therefore what you should do is to remove all references to root. Comment
> >out this line of the server.xml, call your .war file something else and
set
> >the path="".
> >
> >Regards,
> >Andoni.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Andrew Watters" <an...@gointernet.co.uk>
> >Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
> >Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 11:30 AM
> >Subject: Re: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Thanks for your reply. Please find below the tags as requested. Thank
> >>you for taking the time.
> >>
> >><Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" debug="9">
> >> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve"/>
> >> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
> >>prefix="catalina_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/>
> >> <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"
> >>debug="9" resourceName="UserDatabase"/>
> >> <Host name="localhost" debug="9" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true"
> >>autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
> >> <Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
> >> <Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
> >>value="dev.andrew" override="false"/>
> >> </Context>
> >> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
> >>directory="logs" prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
> >>pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/>
> >> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
> >>directory="logs" prefix="localhost_log." suffix=".txt"
timestamp="true"/>
> >> </Host>
> >></Engine>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Andoni wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hello,
> >>>
> >>>You certainly don't need the "/" in the path attribute. This is not
going
> >>>
> >>>
> >to
> >
> >
> >>>work as it cannot match just one slash.
> >>>
> >>>Would you please post the <Engine> <Host> and <Context> tags. They
should
> >>>all be seen as a group to know exactly what's being called.
> >>>
> >>>Andoni.
> >>>
> >>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>From: "Andrew Watters" <an...@gointernet.co.uk>
> >>>Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
> >>>Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 4:19 PM
> >>>Subject: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Hi
> >>>>
> >>>>I posted a problem a couple of days ago which I've made some progress
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>with.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Originally my webapp ROOT.war would not unpack. I've figured out the
> >>>>problem was with the Context element as shown below
> >>>>
> >>>><Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
> >>>> <Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
> >>>>value="dev.andrew"/>
> >>>></Context>
> >>>>
> >>>>If I unpacked ROOT.war manually then my application worked fine.
> >>>>
> >>>>By adding a forward slash to the path attribute as shown below
> >>>>
> >>>><Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
> >>>> <Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
> >>>>value="dev.andrew"/>
> >>>></Context>
> >>>>
> >>>>tomcat now unpacks the WAR fine. However, my application no longer
> >>>>starts because it cannot find the 'servername'! Yikes!
> >>>>
> >>>>Does anybody have any suggestions please?
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks again
> >>>>Andrew
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
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Re: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
Posted by Andrew Watters <an...@gointernet.co.uk>.
Hi Andoni
Thanks again for your reply.
I hope I'm understanding what you say correctly, apologies if not. If I
rename my WAR to say, app.war, then to access a page the URL would
become http://localhost/app/login.jsp. The reason why I changed the
appBase to ROOT and renamed my WAR ROOT.war was so that the URL would be
http://localhost/login.jsp. This is a customer directive.
Is the problem that I'm going about this the wrong way in the first
place? Can I have an app.war and access it like http://localhost/login.jsp?
Best regards
Andrew
Andoni wrote:
>Ok, You can ignore the <logger>'s and <valve>'s when you are worrying about
>configuration. So what you are left with is:
>
><Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" debug="9">
> <Host name="localhost" debug="9" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true"
>autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
> <Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
> </Context>
> </Host>
></Engine>
>
>
>What you have to be aware of is that "ROOT" is more than just another name
>for a webapp. ROOT is a special name for the default webapp in a host.
>Therefore what you should do is to remove all references to root. Comment
>out this line of the server.xml, call your .war file something else and set
>the path="".
>
>Regards,
>Andoni.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andrew Watters" <an...@gointernet.co.uk>
>Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
>Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 11:30 AM
>Subject: Re: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
>
>
>
>
>>Thanks for your reply. Please find below the tags as requested. Thank
>>you for taking the time.
>>
>><Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" debug="9">
>> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve"/>
>> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
>>prefix="catalina_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/>
>> <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"
>>debug="9" resourceName="UserDatabase"/>
>> <Host name="localhost" debug="9" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true"
>>autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
>> <Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
>> <Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
>>value="dev.andrew" override="false"/>
>> </Context>
>> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
>>directory="logs" prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
>>pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/>
>> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
>>directory="logs" prefix="localhost_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/>
>> </Host>
>></Engine>
>>
>>
>>
>>Andoni wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>You certainly don't need the "/" in the path attribute. This is not going
>>>
>>>
>to
>
>
>>>work as it cannot match just one slash.
>>>
>>>Would you please post the <Engine> <Host> and <Context> tags. They should
>>>all be seen as a group to know exactly what's being called.
>>>
>>>Andoni.
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Andrew Watters" <an...@gointernet.co.uk>
>>>Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
>>>Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 4:19 PM
>>>Subject: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi
>>>>
>>>>I posted a problem a couple of days ago which I've made some progress
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>with.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Originally my webapp ROOT.war would not unpack. I've figured out the
>>>>problem was with the Context element as shown below
>>>>
>>>><Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
>>>> <Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
>>>>value="dev.andrew"/>
>>>></Context>
>>>>
>>>>If I unpacked ROOT.war manually then my application worked fine.
>>>>
>>>>By adding a forward slash to the path attribute as shown below
>>>>
>>>><Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
>>>> <Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
>>>>value="dev.andrew"/>
>>>></Context>
>>>>
>>>>tomcat now unpacks the WAR fine. However, my application no longer
>>>>starts because it cannot find the 'servername'! Yikes!
>>>>
>>>>Does anybody have any suggestions please?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks again
>>>>Andrew
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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Re: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
Posted by Andoni <an...@eurokom.ie>.
Ok, You can ignore the <logger>'s and <valve>'s when you are worrying about
configuration. So what you are left with is:
<Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" debug="9">
<Host name="localhost" debug="9" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true"
autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
<Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
</Context>
</Host>
</Engine>
What you have to be aware of is that "ROOT" is more than just another name
for a webapp. ROOT is a special name for the default webapp in a host.
Therefore what you should do is to remove all references to root. Comment
out this line of the server.xml, call your .war file something else and set
the path="".
Regards,
Andoni.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Watters" <an...@gointernet.co.uk>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
> Thanks for your reply. Please find below the tags as requested. Thank
> you for taking the time.
>
> <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" debug="9">
> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve"/>
> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
> prefix="catalina_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/>
> <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"
> debug="9" resourceName="UserDatabase"/>
> <Host name="localhost" debug="9" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true"
> autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
> <Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
> <Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
> value="dev.andrew" override="false"/>
> </Context>
> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
> directory="logs" prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
> pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/>
> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
> directory="logs" prefix="localhost_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/>
> </Host>
> </Engine>
>
>
>
> Andoni wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >You certainly don't need the "/" in the path attribute. This is not going
to
> >work as it cannot match just one slash.
> >
> >Would you please post the <Engine> <Host> and <Context> tags. They should
> >all be seen as a group to know exactly what's being called.
> >
> >Andoni.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Andrew Watters" <an...@gointernet.co.uk>
> >Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
> >Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 4:19 PM
> >Subject: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Hi
> >>
> >>I posted a problem a couple of days ago which I've made some progress
> >>
> >>
> >with.
> >
> >
> >>Originally my webapp ROOT.war would not unpack. I've figured out the
> >>problem was with the Context element as shown below
> >>
> >><Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
> >> <Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
> >>value="dev.andrew"/>
> >></Context>
> >>
> >>If I unpacked ROOT.war manually then my application worked fine.
> >>
> >>By adding a forward slash to the path attribute as shown below
> >>
> >><Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
> >> <Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
> >>value="dev.andrew"/>
> >></Context>
> >>
> >>tomcat now unpacks the WAR fine. However, my application no longer
> >>starts because it cannot find the 'servername'! Yikes!
> >>
> >>Does anybody have any suggestions please?
> >>
> >>Thanks again
> >>Andrew
> >>
> >>
> >
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Re: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
Posted by Andrew Watters <an...@gointernet.co.uk>.
Thanks for your reply. Please find below the tags as requested. Thank
you for taking the time.
<Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" debug="9">
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve"/>
<Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
prefix="catalina_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/>
<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"
debug="9" resourceName="UserDatabase"/>
<Host name="localhost" debug="9" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true"
autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
<Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
<Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
value="dev.andrew" override="false"/>
</Context>
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
directory="logs" prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/>
<Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
directory="logs" prefix="localhost_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/>
</Host>
</Engine>
Andoni wrote:
>Hello,
>
>You certainly don't need the "/" in the path attribute. This is not going to
>work as it cannot match just one slash.
>
>Would you please post the <Engine> <Host> and <Context> tags. They should
>all be seen as a group to know exactly what's being called.
>
>Andoni.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andrew Watters" <an...@gointernet.co.uk>
>Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
>Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 4:19 PM
>Subject: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
>
>
>
>
>>Hi
>>
>>I posted a problem a couple of days ago which I've made some progress
>>
>>
>with.
>
>
>>Originally my webapp ROOT.war would not unpack. I've figured out the
>>problem was with the Context element as shown below
>>
>><Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
>> <Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
>>value="dev.andrew"/>
>></Context>
>>
>>If I unpacked ROOT.war manually then my application worked fine.
>>
>>By adding a forward slash to the path attribute as shown below
>>
>><Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
>> <Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
>>value="dev.andrew"/>
>></Context>
>>
>>tomcat now unpacks the WAR fine. However, my application no longer
>>starts because it cannot find the 'servername'! Yikes!
>>
>>Does anybody have any suggestions please?
>>
>>Thanks again
>>Andrew
>>
>>
>
>
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Re: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
Posted by Andoni <an...@eurokom.ie>.
Hello,
You certainly don't need the "/" in the path attribute. This is not going to
work as it cannot match just one slash.
Would you please post the <Engine> <Host> and <Context> tags. They should
all be seen as a group to know exactly what's being called.
Andoni.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Watters" <an...@gointernet.co.uk>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 4:19 PM
Subject: Context element problems in conf/server.xml
> Hi
>
> I posted a problem a couple of days ago which I've made some progress
with.
>
> Originally my webapp ROOT.war would not unpack. I've figured out the
> problem was with the Context element as shown below
>
> <Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
> <Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
> value="dev.andrew"/>
> </Context>
>
> If I unpacked ROOT.war manually then my application worked fine.
>
> By adding a forward slash to the path attribute as shown below
>
> <Context path="/" docBase="ROOT" debug="9">
> <Environment name="servername" type="java.lang.String"
> value="dev.andrew"/>
> </Context>
>
> tomcat now unpacks the WAR fine. However, my application no longer
> starts because it cannot find the 'servername'! Yikes!
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions please?
>
> Thanks again
> Andrew
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