servlet problems with web app outside Tomcat directory

[Michael Harrison <go...@alumni.princeton.edu>]

Hello,

 

I've been struggling for several days with setting up a modest web
application outside the Tomcat installation directory. I have JSPs
compiling, executing, and returning the proper display data, but I
cannot get my servlets to work: I only get 404 errors.

 

I'm running Apache 2.0.44 and Tomcat 4.1.18 on Linux. I have mod_jk.so
included in httpd.conf to provide AJP connectors to Tomcat. I have a
/home/web directory set up to contain all of my sites' filesystems. One
of these--we'll call it appsite.com--is happily laid out in
/home/web/appsite.com. I take care of the virtual hosts in my Apache
httpd.conf file. I have laid out the following structure for the site:
/home/web/appsite.com/webapps/ROOT. This is where I have JSPs and static
files. 

 

I set the DocumentRoot in httpd.conf to
"/home/web/appsite.com/webapps/ROOT/". I also added an include directive
to include mod_jk directives in a separate file. In the mod_jk
configuration file, I include these servlet-specific JkMount directives:

    JkMount /servlet  ajp13

    JkMount /servlet/*  ajp13

 

In server.xml, I have the following containers defined:

 

<Engine name="Tomcat-Apache-mod_jk" defaultHost="www.appsite.com"
debug="0">

            ..

            <Host name="www.appsite.com" debug="1"
appBase="/home/web/www.appsite.com/webapps">

                        ..

                        <Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="0"/>

 

The servlets are located in
"/home/web/appsite.com/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/mypackage/". I'm
trying to call them through www.appsite.com/servlet/myprefix.ServletX,
and that's when I get the 404.

 

Is there something else I need to do to map servlet to the
webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes directory of my site? 

 

Thanks,

 

Michael