hiding 'web-app' in url for no particular reason...

[Matt Horton]

Hi is it possible for
http://hostname/webAppPrefix/someServlet to
be evaluated at
http://hostname/someServlet?
I don't find this to be particularly important (though my web-app name is the same name as my controller, so it reads silly/silly).
I am not sure if this is simply an application server issue, but in JRun, I have played around w/ the referring URL Map, and set it to "" [actually the JMC does not allow this, because the ui was written to believe that the default application is ""... so as a workaround in the local.properties file I modified the settings for default and my app:
webapp.mapping./webAppPrefix=appname
to
webapp.mapping.=appname]
Unfortunately, having done this, the web server simply intercepts any and all calls to http://hostname
It is evident that JRun does not evaluate "" as the web app name when calls to the controller servlet, ie http://hostname/someServlet return a 404 error.
Thanks as always.

[Garrett Smith]

This is probably implementation specific, but I am using root context.
server.xml:

 <Context path="" docBase="dhtmlkitchen_dev" 
          debug="3" crossContext="true">

I suppose if you were using apache with a tomcat connector, you could use apache mod rewrite.
[ October 26, 2002: Message edited by: Garrett Smith ]

[Matt Horton]

Thanks for your help Garrett...
I've currently put this on backburner, but my suspicion is that jrun should implement this in the same manner, when I get the opportunity to duplicate, I'll reply with more information.
Thanks again...