Can we saperate Jsp files folder from Tomcat?

[Shashidhar Yarabati]

Hi All!

Kindly please ignore this question by providing link, if it is already posted. Can I put my Jsp pages folder outside webapps folder in Tomcat Directory? If yes Can you please tell the solution, How to do???

Thanks in Advance.

Shashidhar Rao
SCJP1.5
[ August 01, 2007: Message edited by: Shashidhar Rao ]

[Bear Bibeault]

You can't put JSP pages outside of a web app, but your web app doesn't need to be under the Tomcat webapps folder either. Is that what you are asking?

[Ben Souther]

There are a couple ways to do this.
I'll describe what I do.

In, TOMCAT_INSTALL/conf/Catalina/localhost I created an context fragment file.
This file is named after my contextName + a ".xml" extension.

Example: "myApp.xml".

In the context fragment file, I point to the folder that contains my web app.

 
<Context
        docBase="/home/bsouther/projects/myApp"
        debug="9"
        crossContext="false"
        privileged="false"
        allowLinking="true"
        reloadable="true">  
</Context>
 

   

The directory must have a valid web app structure (must contain WEB-INF folder).

For more information on that attributes of the Context entry see:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html
[ August 01, 2007: Message edited by: Ben Souther ]

[Shashidhar Yarabati]

Thanks All for prompt Reply!

Let me clear my question. I have more than 100 Jsp pages in folder(say, JspFolder). And my directory structre looks like : TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/contextpath/JspFolder(and)WEB-INF/clasees(and)web.xml.
I deployed it and making use of it. Then after I want to saperate my JspFolder from that area, I don't want to see that at there. B'coz I want to change my jsp files continously...
And my questions are:
1) Is it possible to do like that?
2) If yes can I deploy it again?
3) How should I specify my jsp files in web.xml

I hope you all understand my problem???
Thanks in Advance


Shashidhar Rao
[ August 02, 2007: Message edited by: Shashidhar Rao ]

[Bear Bibeault]

Again, you cannot move your JSPs out of the document base for the web app. Why would you want to do that? You can change them wherever they are.