Re: Tomcat default context for virtual host

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:39:01 GMT
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<MPG.b5210b1acbea@49.118.221.161>
jsguru72 wrote:

According to the documentation for the Tomcat 6 <Context> element,
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If you specify a context path of an empty string (""), you are
defining the default web application for this Host, which will process
all requests not assigned to other Contexts.
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This tells me that if I define a Context and set the path to an empty
string, I should be able to enter just the virtual host name as a URL
and be directed to that context. I must be misunderstanding something
though because this is not what I am experiencing.


I think the docs are consistent.

It is not "" but "/" that gives that doctrine.

But yes. In that case you can discourage the tinyurl attic name in the limb.

Arne

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