How to make your own web app as start page in Tomcat 5 ?

[kmthien]

Hi,

I have installed Tomcat 5.0.11 ay /usr/local/tomcat5/ and I have made my own website at /usr/local/tomcat5/webapps/abc/index.jsp

When I entered www.abc.com, it always display the /usr/local/tomcat5/webapps/ROOT/index.jsp

How to change this so that everytime whenever I enter www.abc.com, it will go to /usr/local/tomcat5/webapps/abc/index.jsp ??

 

[kmthien]

Pls help guys ......

 

[Softballslug]

You need to add a context for your project. Should look something like:
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<CONTEXT <BR className="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext">crossContext="true"
reloadable="true"
mapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextMapper"
useNaming="true"
debug="0"
swallowOutput="false"
privileged="false"
displayName="AutoServiceStruts"
wrapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper"
docBase="C:\Tomcat 4.1\webapps\AutoService\Web Content"
cookies="true"
path="/AutoServiceStruts"
cachingAllowed="true"
charsetMapperClass="org.apache.catalina.util.CharsetMapper">

<LOGGER <BR className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger">debug="0"
verbosity="1"
prefix="Struts_Data__Logs_"
directory="logs"
timestamp="true"
suffix=".txt" />

<PARAMETER <BR name="context.param.name">override="false"
value="context.param.value" />

<ENVIRONMENT <BR name="maxExemptions">override="true"
type="java.lang.Integer"
value="15" />

<RESOURCELINK <BR name="linkToGlobalResource">type="java.lang.Integer"
global="simpleValue" />
</CONTEXT>
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The parts you want to modify are:

displayName="ABC Application"

docBase="/user/local/tomcat5/webapps/abc"

path="/ABC"


This is provided you have the DNS for www.abc.com pointing to your server properly. Once the request is picked up, Tomcat looks for index.jsp (make sure this is a welcome file inside your web.xml file) inside of the abc folder.

Best of Luck...

 

[kmthien]

Hi Softballslug,

u mean I need to add the context inside /usr/local/tomcat5/conf/server.xml ??
The <BR inside CONTEXT <BR className="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext">crossContext="true"
is it a mistake ?

 

[kmthien]

Pls help ......

 

[Softballslug]

Yes,

Put all of the following into server.xml after the last </Context> that you find. Restart Tomcat and you should be able to
enter http://localhost/ABC and your jsp should display:

<CONTEXT <BR className="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext">crossContext="true"
reloadable="true"
mapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextMapper"
useNaming="true"
debug="0"
swallowOutput="false"
privileged="false"
displayName="ABC Application"
wrapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper"
docBase="/user/local/tomcat5/webapps/abc"
cookies="true"
path="/ABC"
cachingAllowed="true"
charsetMapperClass="org.apache.catalina.util.CharsetMapper">
<LOGGER <BR className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger">debug="0"
verbosity="1"
prefix="Struts_Data__Logs_"
directory="logs"
timestamp="true"
suffix=".txt" />
<PARAMETER <BR name="context.param.name">override="false"
value="context.param.value" />
<ENVIRONMENT <BR name="maxExemptions">override="true"
type="java.lang.Integer"
value="15" />
<RESOURCELINK <BR name="linkToGlobalResource">type="java.lang.Integer"
global="simpleValue" />
</CONTEXT>

 

[kmthien]

Hi Softballs,

How about I want my /usr/local/tomcat5/webapps/abc/index.jsp to display when I hit www.abc.com ?? Thanks !

 

[kmthien]

Hi Softball,

the context u wrote is not working. I shutdown Tomcat then add-in the context u gave me into server.xml then I tried to start Tomcat again, Tomcat refuse to start ! How ?

 

[Softballslug]

Originally posted by: kmthien
Hi Softballs, How about I want my /usr/local/tomcat5/webapps/abc/index.jsp to display when I hit www.abc.com ?? Thanks !

<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

 

[Softballslug]

Originally posted by: kmthien
Hi Softball, the context u wrote is not working. I shutdown Tomcat then add-in the context u gave me into server.xml then I tried to start Tomcat again, Tomcat refuse to start ! How ?

That is usually due to a classpath exception being thrown. Remove the context that you added from the server.xml. Inside the good server.xml find a context and modify the params to make it look like the one I gave you.

 

[Softballslug]

When Tomcat doesn't load properly use XML spy or something similar to verify that server.xml is well formed. Here is a better context. If you notice within the first context, I somehow got <BR in places??? Don't quite know how I did that but that is the problem:

<Context className="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext" crossContext="true" reloadable="true"
mapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextMapper" useNaming="true" debug="0"
swallowOutput="false" privileged="false" displayName="ABC"
wrapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper" docBase="/user/local/tomcat5/webapps/abc"
cookies="true" path="/ABC" cachingAllowed="true"
charsetMapperClass="org.apache.catalina.util.CharsetMapper">
<Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" debug="0" verbosity="1"
prefix="ABC_Logs_" directory="logs" timestamp="true" suffix=".txt"/>
<Parameter name="context.param.name" override="false" value="context.param.value"/>
<Environment name="maxExemptions" override="true" type="java.lang.Integer" value="15"/>
<ResourceLink name="linkToGlobalResource" type="java.lang.Integer" global="simpleValue"/>
</Context>