cant setup my own working environment

[santomh Mclain]

hi friends,

I've been trying far many days to set my own web development working environment. although, all the formalities have been done however, I'm still unable to deploy it.

below is the summery of the steps I've taken

1- created an webapps development directory named OnlineExam.
2- Organiged this directory in proper webapp format.
OnlineExam/WEB-INF/
................../lib- jar files
................../classes- java class files

OnlineExam/--web pages(jsp,html)

3- put OnlineExam directory inside ${CATALINA_HOME}/server/webapps/
4- created OnlineExam.xml file with context element pointing to app directory and put this OnlineExam.xml file inside ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/Catalina/localhost/ directory.

  
    <Context docBase="${CATALINA_HOME}/server/webapps/OnlineExam" privileged="true"
         antiResourceLocking="false" antiJARLocking="false">
 
  <!-- Uncomment this Valve to limit access to the Admin app to localhost
   for obvious security reasons. Allow may be a comma-separated list of
   hosts (or even regular expressions).
  <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"
    allow="127.0.0.1"/>
  -->
 
</Context>
  

5- put a copy of OnlineExam.xml inside my app directory also.

6- changed the connector port from 8080 to 80.
7- set the classpath variable pointing to app directory.

and finally I've given the following URL for a webpage
http://localhost/Editpage.jsp

but tomcat given error: cant find resource Editpage.jsp

is there anything left to do?
tomcat 5.5.17

regards
san

[Bear Bibeault]

3- put OnlineExam directory inside ${CATALINA_HOME}/server/webapps/

Wrong place. Should be${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/

[santomh Mclain]

I've tried in this way already but couldn't find it working.
i got stuck on this problem.

regards
san

[Ilari Moilanen]

With the configuration above isn't the right url to access the application this?
http://localhost/OnlineExam/Editpage.jsp

If you are trying to point it to the root (without the application name in the pathname) then you should say so explicitly. Don't know how though. Maybe by using empty name like ".xml" or perhaps "ROOT.xml" or something like that...

[santomh Mclain]

gosh!!
what a minor mistake i was making

but one more interesting issue i have seen. that is, after putting app directory inside $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ there is no need of OnlineExam.xml file and this make me suspect that there must be some default setting.

is that so?
[ July 07, 2008: Message edited by: santomh Mclain ]

[Ilari Moilanen]

True. What caught first my eye in your posting was that you seemed to do everything a little too complicated. You need the separate xml file only if you need to do something special trickery like point outside tomcat directory hierarchy.

Every application you put in the webapps dir is automatically used by tomcat. You can even (and that is the normal procedure in my opinion) place a war packaged application there and tomcat will automatically deploy it there...

[ July 07, 2008: Message edited by: Ilari Moilanen ]
[ July 07, 2008: Message edited by: Ilari Moilanen ]

[santomh Mclain]

though at first, I'd put the app directory at different drive(E:\) other than tomcat installation drive(C:\) and given the full path (E:\java\OnlineExam) to the context element in OnlineExam.xml located at where it should be.
but I couldn't deploy because of the same error. all the same steps I'd taken for this.

what may be the reason?

[Ilari Moilanen]

You probably have looked through the docs that are bundled with tomcat? Like
http://localhost:8080/tomcat-docs/manager-howto.html
or if you were using port 80 then
http://localhost/tomcat-docs/manager-howto.html

But what seems to be missing from the context declaration you gave in your first message is the path attribute. So maybe try adding
path="/OnlineExam"
there...

[santomh Mclain]

yes!!!
i got it worked
thanks a lot buddy, you really solved the problem I was stuck in over so long.