127.0.0.1 GET 404 on webapp resources

[jack enn]

Hi all,

i don't know if this question is already answered somewere, but i'm scratching my head since 2 weeks and can't find a solution.

I deployed a war file in webapps folder. (lets say mywebapp.war)

All is fine in tomcat manager, app is started.

Now in server.xml i configured <Host name="mywebapp" appBase="webapps/mywebapp" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"/>

context is in context.xml and contains a connetion to postgres db. (this also seems to be fine)

when i put localhost:8080/mywebapp/login.jsp it loads me only some part of the page beacause 127.0.0.1 cannot find imgs js css and all other folders inside mywebapp folder.

localhost log shows it gets 404 for all folder and subfolder contained in mywebapp.

Can you please help? i'm running out of ideas!

thanks.
Jack

[Tim Holloway]

Welcome to the JavaRanch, Jack!

Why did you modify server.xml?

[jack enn]

hi Tim,

i'm not a tomcat expert as you might imagine :-)

putted <host> in server.xml because of readings i made in google...they tell to create a host tag for webapp and inside put context aso..

i'm wrong, isn't it??

can you please help?? Got big pressure around for this!

thanks

[Tim Holloway]

Si, you are wrong. You do not have to modify server.xml. The "appBase" attribute of the Hosts element refers to the directory that that Host expects to find its webapps (WARs) in. Tomcat can host more than one app at a time. So change it back to appBase="webapps" and copy the WAR to the TOMCAT_HOME/webapps directory. Note that when unpackWARs is true, Tomcat will unzip ("explode") a WAR file into a directory of the same name and once that is done it will ignore the WAR file itself, even if you replace it with a newer version.

The default Context path for a war named "xyz.war" is assigned as "xyz", so the application will have a base URL of 'http://localhost:8080/xyz/'.