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From: Quintin Beukes <quintin@skywalk.co.za>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:42:56 +0200
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Subject: Re: How to deploy plain html-files with geronimo?
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Now I learn something new. Thanks :>

Quintin Beukes


On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:35 PM, David Jencks <david_jencks@yahoo.com> wrot=
e:
>
> On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Quintin Beukes wrote:
>
>> Why does it have to have a servlet at all?
>
> You need a default servlet to serve static content. =C2=A0Jetty and tomca=
t
> install one by default in each web app (unless you override it) but these
> automatic default servlets serve content from inside the war. =C2=A0If yo=
u pack
> stuff up in a war, you shouldn't need any servlet :-). =C2=A0If you want =
the
> content served from somewhere else, you need to configure a default servl=
et
> to tell it where the "somewhere else" is.
>
> hope this is clearer :-)
> david jencks
>
>
>>
>> Quintin Beukes
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:05 PM, David Jencks <david_jencks@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Oct 13, 2009, at 8:31 AM, juhanay wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>> My problem is simple. How to deploy plain html-files or a directory to=
 a
>>>> user without packing these things is a war file(like apache web server
>>>> does). So that the user may browse the directory stucture with the
>>>> browser.
>>>> WAR-file is not viable option since i cannot pack all the files in a w=
ar
>>>> file.
>>>
>>> Why not?
>>>
>>> Assuming you have a good answer to that question :-) =C2=A0you can set =
up a
>>> web
>>> app that has only the default servlet for the web container you are usi=
ng
>>> (jetty or tomcat) and configure it to serve static content from whereve=
r
>>> it
>>> actually is. =C2=A0Unfortunately I don't have an example of how to do t=
his
>>> handy,
>>> but I suspect either jetty or tomcat documentation might explain how to
>>> do
>>> this. =C2=A0It would be a good thing to get into our docs as well (assu=
ming it
>>> isn't already there and I just don't know about it).
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> david jencks
>>>
>>>> --
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>>>>
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25875139s134p25875139.html
>>>> Sent from the Apache Geronimo - Users mailing list archive at
>>>> Nabble.com.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>