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From: "Rob S." <rslifka@sfu.ca>
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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 7:15:42 PDT
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Subject: Re: FW: Error when reading a servlet
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> I have given something like this within my server.xml file
> <Context path="/health"
> docBase="/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1/webapps/com/health/wls/servlets"
> crossContext="true" debug="0" reloadable="true"></Context>

The "docBase" is the root of your web application, where there will be a WEB-INF subdirectory.

> -> here the main reason why i have given docBase="/jaka......" is coz if I
> give in as docBase="/webapps/com...." I get a error something like this
>
>  What I want you to note is it's looking for files within c:/webapps... but
> actually I have dir structure as c:/jakara-tomcat-3.2.1/webapps....

Right, because you're specifying the docBase as "/webapps" so of course it will look for files in C:/webapps =)
 
> ->Please tell me if I give in docbase as "webapps/health" how will it know
> the exact servlets path... which is within webapps/com/health/wls/servlets

It knows because the web.xml knows to look for class files in WEB-INF/lib and WEB-INF/classes.  You should place your servlet class in WEB-INF/classes under your docBase.
 
> Now in the my url address if I give ~localhost:8080/health/HealthLogin it
> gives me a error saying page cannot be found.

As far as I know "~localhost" isn't the same as "localhost".  This will definitely be a problem.  It is on my Win2k machine.

Have you read anything about servlets and web applications yet?  Head to http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html and click on the appropriate documentation bundle for whatever version of Tomcat you're using.

- r