configuring Tomcat 5.0 to serve static content

[mhixson]

I have a directory from which I'd like to serve static images. This directory is /usr/local/watermarks and lies outside of the jboss directory structure (which is in /usr/local/jboss). This is JBoss 3.2.4 and Tomcat 5.0.26.
Inside of

<Engine name="jboss.web" defaultHost="localhost">

I've added this

<Host name="localhost" debug="99"
 unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
 xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">

<!-- ADD WATERMARKS DIRECTORY -->
 <Context path="/watermarks" appBase="webapps"
 docBase="/usr/local/watermarks"
 debug="99" reloadable="true">
 </Context>
 </Host>

Going to http://mymachinename.com/watermarks/ I get a 404 and the message: The requested resource (/watermarks/) is not available.

I've found no error messages in the logs regarding the watermarks context. Is there some way to get JBoss or Tomcat to tell me *why* the context is unavailable?
I had this working with JBoss 3.2.3 so I know its not just a filesystem permissions issue. JBoss or Tomcat are preventing me from seeing the watermarks context for some reason.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[sramkishan]

This is a problem only in Jboss/Tomcat5.026
What tomcat5.0.26 expects is the defaultWebXml attribute when specifying the Context. So your code should actually be

<Context path="/watermarks" appBase="webapps"
 docBase="/usr/local/watermarks"
 debug="99" reloadable="true" defaultWebXml="path to the default web xml">

Copy the web.xml from tomcat....sar folder to probably the conf directory of jboss and give that path. It should work.