Correction To: context-relative paths are painfull

[Mike La Budde <mi...@irista.com>]

Please see interspersed comments.

At 10/05/2000 03:42 PM -0500, Mike La Budde wrote:
>OK, yes, I'm still wrestling with this issue.
>
>Here's a snippet from my struts actions configuration file:
>
>   <!-- ========== Global Forward Definitions 
> ============================== -->
>   <global-forwards>
>     <forward   name="logon"                path="/logon.jsp"/>
>     <forward   name="success"              path="/pages/main/index.html"/>
>     <forward   name="error"                path="/ErrorActionViewPage.do"/>
>   </global-forwards>
>
>   <!-- ========== Action Mapping Definitions 
> ============================== -->
>   <action-mappings>
>
>    <!-- ============================ Error BEGIN 
> ============================= -->
>
>    <action path="/ErrorActionViewPage"
>            type="com.irista.ui.web.fulfill.ErrorActionViewPage">
>        <forward name="success"             path="/pages/main/error.jsp"/>
>    </action>
>
>    <action path="/ErrorDtlActionViewPage"
>            type="com.irista.ui.web.fulfill.ErrorDtlActionViewPage">
>        <forward 
> name="success"             path="/pages/main/errorDetail.jsp"/>
>    </action>
>
>    <!-- ============================ Error END 
> =============================== -->
>
>
>If an error occurs I'm getting to /pages/main/error.jsp (thru' the global 
>error forward /ErrorActionViewPage.do). This error page has a "View 
>Details" button on it. However, attempting to view the details hangs or 
>gets a 404 (page not found) error. Looking at the console window shows 
>that it has somehow lost its context and it thinks its in the ROOT. 
>Changing the above forward path for the ErrorDtlActionViewPage to 
>path="/mycontextName/pages/main/errorDetail.jsp" works!

Sorry. Wrong, this isn't what we changed. We changed the link in the 
error.jsp page from /ErrorDtlActionViewPage.do to 
/mycontextName/ErrorDtlActionViewPage.do and then it worked....  I'm still 
just as confused, tho'. ;-)

>Ouch! I'm totally confused by this behavior. (Not to mention that my 
>earlier confusion (dismay?) at having to specify all paths as fully 
>qualified context relative in the first place hasn't been satisfactorily 
>cleared up. Hell, I got confused just re-reading that last sentence!)
>
>Based on yesterday's exchanges between Craig & Colin I know I'm going to 
>have even more fun when I get to the point where I'm configuring security 
>for our apps! (Another opportunity...)
>
>TIA,
>
>Mike