Trying to retrieve the ROOT context in Servlet.

[Jeffrey Lanham <bl...@gvtc.com>]

I have been trying for days and tons of google searches and mail archive searches and can't find an answer to the quandry I find
myself in.

I need to allow users to upload to a directory in the ROOT context of my tomcat server.  For some reason, and it may be a security
deal, I can't retrieve the server context for "/" so I can get the actual path to upload the file.  It always comes back null.  I
know that the Java servlet specifications say the null may be returned if the container, for some reason, doesn't want to return the
context.  I don't know if it's a tomcat configuration, or if there is some other mechanism to use besides
getServletContext().getContext("/").  Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Jeffrey Lanham

Miller Curtain Company