configuration help.

[Rob Deer]

I want to put my index.jsp in this directory. /home/www
How should server.xml be setup? I keep getting 404 error or a blank page.

<Host name="localhost" appBase="/home/www"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
<Context path="" docBase="/home/www" reloadable="true" />
</Host>

tried a ton of configs. still don't work.

[Scott Dunbar]

What do your error logs say? I'm guessing that the context couldn't be started for some reason. I usually have something more like:

<Host name="localhost" appBase="/home/www"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
    <Context path="" docBase="" reloadable="true" />
</Host>

note that the docBase of the Context is not a full path name. This just means that it inherits from the parent Host element.

Also, remember that you are creating web apps. You will want to have at least a WEB-INF directory with a valid web.xml. A really short web.xml would be something like:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
 
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC
   "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
   "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
 
<web-app>
   <welcome-file-list>
      <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
   </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>