Hi all,

I've great problems with Tomcat and setting up a context in a 2nd
(virtual) host:

my environmemt:

OS: Redhat Linux
Platform: Intel x86

TC version: 4.1

tomcat4.conf:
--- cut -----
CATALINA_HOME="/var/tomcat4"
JASPER_HOME="/var/tomcat4"
CATALINA_TMPDIR="/var/tomcat4/temp"
---- cut -----

1) There is a dir called /home/www/vhostxx/html/webapps for the
vhost-files. There User uploaded her Apps via FTP. There are just a
few jsp-files and a WEB-INF-subdir with a standard web.xml.

Permissions:

drwxrwxrwx   2 vhostxx_user  ftponly    4096 Aug 12 14:03 webapps

2) Host and Context are defined in server.xml (see below)

But when i define the Context (shown below) with den Admin Panel, I
get this error from the Logger:

2003-08-15 14:27:21 StandardContext[/webapps]: Resources start failed:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base
/home/www/vhostxx/html/webapps does not exist or is not a
readable directory

and

2003-08-15 14:27:21 StandardContext[/webapps]: Context startup failed
due to previous errors
2003-08-15 14:27:21 StandardContext[/webapps]: Exception during
cleanup after start failed

:(

3) When I try http://www.www.domain_vhostxx.at:8080/webapps/file.jsp

I also get

HTTP Status 404 - /webapps/file.jsp
type Status report
message /webapps/file.jsp
description The requested resource (/webapps/file.jsp) is not available.

Of course, this is, because "Context startup failed" .. but why is
this so? TC has also add a work-dir for this host and context but the
context-working-dir is empty :(

There are no basicly problems, because the Admin Panel (localhost,
context: /admin) works fine.

Is it a problem, when appBase, docBase are outside $CATALINA_HOME?

Are there spezial permission needs for the appBase, docBase dirs? But
now there are permissions to ALL with

drwxrwxrwx   2 vhostxx_user  ftponly    4096 Aug 12 14:03 webapps

Is there anything that I don't know?

I'ld be very very glad if anybody has an idea, because I've studied
the docs for days and can't see a mistake in my config?

Thanks a lot Robert


>From server.xml:

############# Standard Localhost with Admin & Manager Context #######

<Host className="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost"
appBase="webapps" autoDeploy="true"
configClass="org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig"
contextClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext" debug="0"
deployXML="true"
errorReportValveClass="org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve"
liveDeploy="true"
mapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostMapper"
name="localhost" unpackWARs="true">
    <Context className="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext"
cachingAllowed="true"
charsetMapperClass="org.apache.catalina.util.CharsetMapper"
cookies="true" crossContext="false" debug="0" displayName="Tomcat
Administration Application" docBase="../server/webapps/admin"
mapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextMapper"
path="/admin" privileged="true" reloadable="false"
swallowOutput="false" useNaming="true"
wrapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper">
      <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
debug="0" directory="logs" prefix="localhost_admin_log." suffix=".txt"
timestamp="true" verbosity="1"/>
    </Context>

<Context className="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext"
cachingAllowed="true"
charsetMapperClass="org.apache.catalina.util.CharsetMapper"
cookies="true" crossContext="false" debug="0" displayName="Tomcat
Manager Application" docBase="../server/webapps/manager"
mapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextMapper"
path="/manager" privileged="true" reloadable="false"
swallowOutput="false" useNaming="true"
wrapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper">
      <ResourceLink global="UserDatabase" name="users"
type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"/>
    </Context>
</Host>

############# my new Host ###########################

<Host className="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost"
appBase="/home/www/vhostxx/html/webapps" autoDeploy="true"
configClass="org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig"
contextClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext" debug="0"
deployXML="true"
errorReportValveClass="org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve"
liveDeploy="true"
mapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostMapper"
name="www.domain_vhostxx.at" unpackWARs="true">
   <Alias>domain_vhostxx.at</Alias>

<Context className="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext"
cachingAllowed="true"
charsetMapperClass="org.apache.catalina.util.CharsetMapper"
cookies="true" crossContext="true" debug="0"
docBase="/home/www/vhostxx/html/webapps"
mapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextMapper"
path="/webapps" privileged="false" reloadable="true"
swallowOutput="true" useNaming="true"
wrapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper">
    </Context>
   </Host>




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