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RE: [cobalt-developers] Installing Tomcat 4x on a Linux machine

Ok,

Thanks to 

Mr. Michele Neylon
Blacknight Solutions - affordable linux hosting
http://www.blacknightsolutions.com/

For giving me access to his machine.

The problem was in using the default web.xml file in the sites.

Do not use the one that comes with the Cobalt jdk kit, or any example
web.xml as that is what it is and example. Not a working one and it will
cause problems.

Start with a web.xml file containing the following.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
    PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN"
    "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd";>

<web-app>

</web-app>

You can change the DTD/webapp type to 2.3 or 2_3 if needed depending on
the version of servlets and etc that you need.

Also be very careful when adding entries to the web.xml file. As the xml
parser in Tomcat 4.x is very picky on the order. I found that out the
hard way.

So add things one at a time and adhere to the format or recommended
format. Also put complex servlets requiring more params and etc toward
the bottom of the web.xml file. If complex ones come before none complex
ones the compiler will look for more params in each servlet to follow
and will cause the parser to fail when it does not find them.

That is base on my experiences so far. Others may have experienced
things differently or had different experiences.

Hope that helps others as it did get Michele up and running.

-- 
Sincerely,
William L. Thomson Jr.
Support Group
Obsidian-Studios Inc.
439 Amber Way
Petaluma, Ca. 94952
Phone  707.766.9509
Fax    707.766.8989
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