5.0.18: Windows XP Pro vs Windows 2000 2004-01-24 - By Remy Maucherat
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Merrill Cornish wrote:
> I have Windows XP Pro at home and Windows 2000 at work. I run Tomcat on
> both of them, and I try to keep identical environments on both.
> However, it's not easy.
>
> Under 5.0.16, I would run it as a server on XP, but not 2000. Under
> 5.0.18, I got it running as a server on 2000 immediately while XP took
> many installs, uninstalls, reboots and what not. (I still don't know
> what I finally did to get it to work.)
>
> After getting 5.0.18 to run under XP, I tried launching my application.
> Entering "http://localhost/timesheet" into the browser got a Page Not
> Found and did not resolve to "https://localhost/timesheet/login.jsp" as
> it should. Examining the log showed that the
> "localhost-timesheet_log.txt" log file defined in the <Context> element
> for the timesheet application in server.xml didn't exist either. Tomcat
> seemed to be ignoring my application and its context even when I tried
> using the same conf\server.xml and conf\web.xml files that had worked on
> Windows 2000.
>
> The stdout.logdid exist and showed that the various example contexts
> (servlet-examples, jsp-examples, balancer, etc.) had been initialized
> even though mine application hadn't. There were no error messages.
> Then I noticed that the samples didn't have a <Context> element in the
> server.xml file. Instead, they had a *.xml file in their application
> directory with ONLY the <Context> element in it (i.e., not a well-formed
> XML file).
>
> When I made a copy of my application's <Context> element shown below
> and put it in "...\webapps\timesheet\timesheet.xml" it worked.
No, it does not. .xml files in the Host appBase will be ignored. Don't
try to start relying right away on paranormal explanations right away ;)
I use XP, BTW.
> I've read the 5.0.18 release notes, the FAQ on the Jakarta website, and
> the tomcat-docs distributed with 5.0.18. I can't find a reference to
> these fragment files except for the mention of "Context Descriptions"
> under Deployer. However, those files are nested under the conf
> directory rather than under the application context.
>
> Why does 5.0.18 recognize my application's <Context> element in the
> server.xml file on Windows 2000 but will only recognize it in a
> timesheet.xml file in my application directory on Windows XP? What is
> the value of having three possible locations for the same information?
> Where can I find it documented?
You need to put your Context elements in XML files next to the ones for
the manager and admin, and it will work ok.
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