Deploying a war file with Tomcat 5 and JBoss

[epixnicros]

I'm running JBoss 3.2.3 and Tomcat 5.0.16 so I can use JSP 2.0. Everything starts up without error.

I created a simple home.war file and its deployed without error but I'm not able to access the jsp correctly.

when I go to http://127.0.0.1/home all I get is: Directory Listing For /

If I follow the directoy listing to where the jsp file is it will display. For example: http://127.0.0.1/home/root/Desktop/home.war/home/

I would like to have the JSP file to be root but at root all I get is a 'Welcome to JBoss' screen.

How can I deploy my .war file as root without needing the directory structure?

Thank you
Chris s. Raver

Here are the messages when the file is deployed.

15:24:27,919 INFO [MainDeployer] Starting deployment of package: file:/jboss/server/default/deploy/home.war
15:24:28,026 INFO [Tomcat5] deploy, ctxPath=/home, warUrl=file:/jboss/server/default/tmp/deploy/tmp11034home.war/
15:24:29,429 INFO [ContextConfig] Missing application web.xml, using defaults only StandardEngine[jboss.web].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/home]
15:24:29,889 INFO [MainDeployer] Deployed package: file:/jboss/server/default/deploy/home.war

My web.xml file was generated automaticly using JDeveloper.

<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'windows-1252'?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app>
Empty web.xml file for Web Application
<session-config>
<session-timeout>30</session-timeout>
</session-config>
<mime-mapping>
html
<mime-type>text/html</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
<mime-mapping>
txt
<mime-type>text/plain</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

[jonlee]

You need to create a root context by adding a jboss-web.xml to your WAR - it goes in the WEB-INF directory with your existing web.xml file.

The jboss-web.xml should contain the following:

<jboss-web>
 <context-root>/</context-root>
 <virtual-host>www.acme.com</virtual-host>
</jboss-web>

I would have thought that by default Tomcat would provide services at port 8080 - unless you have changed things.

So access would be http://localhost:8080/home or http://127.0.0.1:8080/home, assuming that you have an index.html or index.jsp in the root directory of your WAR. However, you report that you get the root display so I am confused about your actual configuration.

Also, your deployment indicates it can't locate the web.xml - it is in WEB-INF/web.xml of your WAR? Case is important so check the WAR with jar tvf home.war and make sure the WEB-INF directory exists, not web-inf or Web-inf or any other variations.

You may also need to remove any existing web application mapped to the root context - e.g. Whatever one shows the Welcome to JBoss screen. I haven't downloaded 3.2.3 as yet so I can't comment on how things may have changed for this.