[cobalt-users] Servlet URL mappings

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've finally got my Qube upgraded to the latest and greatest version of 
the OS with all patches installed. (Most important trick was burning a 
CD with the latest version of the OS, thus obviating the need for about 
20 different prior patches.) I have installed the Java package for 
Tomcat including servlet and JSP support. I have even got my servlets 
mostly running.

However, somewhere between the version of the Java Kit for Cobalt I was 
using and the latest version, I seem to have lost the ability to map 
servlet contexts to different URLs. Previously, I was able, for 
instance, to make http://www.elharo.com/fibonacci/ point to a particular 
servlet. Now the best I can do is 
http://www.elharo.com/fibonacci/servlet/ServletClassName
This is a bit of a concern in that I have a book going to press soon 
that advertises some of the old URLs that no longer work.

Working my way through the conf files it looks like Sun has heavily 
customized Tomcat so that changes to web.xml and server.xml are either 
ignored or overwritten. Has anybody in succeeded in breaking through 
this enough to point particular URLs at particular servlets? If so what 
voodoo did you use?

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Rusty