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Gibran,

On 10/2/14 5:04 PM, Gibran Castillo wrote:
> To fix the problem I put the .jar files in tomcat's lib directory
> and it works.... best way to do this is like you said to put the
> *.jar files in the WEB-INF/lib directory, build the project as WAR
> and deploy the war file in Tomcat ....    Where do I place the .war
> file in Tomcat?  in the 'webapps' directory?

Yes, you would put the WAR file into Tomcat's webapps/ directory. If
you do that, you won't need the separate donow62.xml file.

- -chris

> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Christopher Schultz < 
> chris@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> 
> Gibran,
> 
> On 10/2/14 3:59 PM, Gibran Castillo wrote:
>>>> I deployed donow62 Spring MVC app into Tomcat by placing 
>>>> donow62.xml file in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost
>>>> 
>>>> The contents of donow62.xml are as follow: <Context
>>>> 
> docBase="/Users/gibranecastillo/Documents/workspace/CollegeLife/donow62/website"
>>>>
>>>>
>
> 
reloadable="true"/>
>>>> 
>>>> They basically point to the website directory in the spring
>>>> mvc project in my eclipse workspace.
> 
> What is the directory structure of ".../donow62/website"?
> 
>>>> I looked at the Tomcat logs and it says donow62 deployed 
>>>> successfully.  In the "Tomcat Web Application Manager" I can
>>>> see /donow62 listed there.
>>>> 
>>>> When I clicked on /donow62 it sends me to this URL 
>>>> http://localhost:8080/donow62/ but instead of getting
>>>> expected result and the web page, I get HTTP Status 500 [see
>>>> web browser log below]
>>>> 
>>>> My Spring MVC "donow62" app is using JSTL and it is in the 
>>>> classpath. Using Eclipse on the donow62 project I created
>>>> User Libraries that reference all the dependencies for
>>>> donow62.  The SERVLET user library has <> el-api.jar - 
>>>> /Library/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.12/lib/el-api.jar <>
>>>> jasper.jar - 
>>>> /Library/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.12/lib/jasper.jar <> 
>>>> jasper-el.jar - 
>>>> /Library/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.12/lib/jasper-el.jar <> 
>>>> jsp-api.jar -
>>>> /Library/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.12/lib/jsp-api.jar <>
>>>> servlet-api.jar - 
>>>> /Library/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.12/lib/servlet-api.jar <> 
>>>> javax-servlet.jsp.jstl-1.2.1.jar -
>>>> 
> /Users/gibranecastillo/Documents/java/servlet/javax-servlet.jsp.jstl-1.2.1.jar
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>
> 
The exception is basically saying that the donow62 app is missing the JSTL
>>>> dependency, the jar, any suggestions on how fix this are
>>>> welcome.
> 
> Is the JSTL JAR file in
> 
> /Users/gibranecastillo/Documents/workspace/CollegeLife/donow62/website/WEB-INF/lib?
>
> 
If not, you aren't actually using it.
> 
> Although I don't do it myself, Eclipse is pretty good at deploying
> web applications to Tomcat itself: you shouldn't have to even
> create your own context.xml file and fill it with data.
> 
> If you want to do everything manually (believe me, I understand),
> then you'll need to make sure that your Eclipse project
> successfully builds to a WAR-like structure which contains, among
> other things, a WEB-INF/ directory and all of the things that
> should be in there (like lib/*.jar). If you don't do that, then you
> won't really be deploying a web application... you'll effectively
> be mapping a directory on the disk into a URL space and getting no
> other benefits.
> 
> -chris
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