Context tag

[Asha Pathik]

Hi all,
I've just started with servlets and unfortunately I am not able to run the very first example in Chapter 1 of Falkner's Servlet and JSP book. So if any body is following that book and knows where to put the "jspbook.xml" and other files, please help. For past four days I've tried every possible combination but it is not working.
Thanks

[vishwanath nadimpally]

I haven't read the book. But if "jspbook" is the name of your web application and if you are wondering where to put the "jspbook.xml", it should go in to your tomcat's conf/Catalina/localhost/ directory.

You can also copy everything with in the <context></context> tags in the "jspbook.xml" and put it in your server.xml inside your <host></host> tags.

hope this is what you are looking for.

[Bear Bibeault]

Moved to the Tomcat forum.

[Asha Pathik]

Well I tried what you said to do Vishwanath but it is still not working. My jspbook.xml contains following code:

  <Context path="/jspbook" docBase="jspbook" debug="0"></Context>
  

and web.xml file contains following code:

   <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" version="2.4">
<welcome-file-list>
index.html
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app> 

I've installed Tomcat in Tomcat directory and under the webpps directory i've created "jspbook" which contains a WEB-INF folder which has the web.xml file.

Please tell what has to be done in order to run this application.
Asha

[Jaikiran Pai]

I havent worked much with Tomcat, but i guess, this should work - Place the jspbook.xml in the webapps directory.

Try it out.

[Jaikiran Pai]

Also, have a look at Context in Tomcat5.x