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Virtualisation Server and context path

mark_smithson — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:49:26 GMT

We have a dynamic web application which we are managing using Alfresco and have run into an isuse with the virtualisation server.We have encoded all our urls using the JSTL c:url tag. When viewed through the virtualisation server we get a context path of $-1$site$ROOT added to urls.I assume this con

Re: Virtualisation Server and context path

jcox — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:07:59 GMT

Mark,

I did a checkin today on the 2.1 enterprise branch that should
address this problem. This should make its way to HEAD/community
fairly soon.

The effects of this checkin will make the virt server able to support
sessions (c.f: JSESSIONID), as well as make the <c.url> tag happy.

Note: there is a bug in JSTL 1.1 that causes <c:url>
it to generate "bad" URLs for the default/ROOT webapp:

http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/1.5/jstl/ReleaseNotes.html
22860 tag url generate invalid result for root context

The bug in JSTL 1.1 <c:url> is that it fails to remove the name of
the default webapp ("ROOT") from the URL it creates. However,
JSTL is not alone in problems like this so the virtualization server
automatically accepts "/ROOT" as an alias for "/"). Thus, despite
the problems with JSTL 1.1, your URLs will work anyhow, once you
upgrade to 2.1E (or some post-merge version of HEAD).

I hope this helps,
-Jon

Re: Virtualisation Server and context path

mark_smithson — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:53:22 GMT

Thanks Jon,

I look forward to trying it out.

Mark

Re: Virtualisation Server and context path

sanjay — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:56:25 GMT

I am still facing this problem while using the controller classes.

In case of controller class, it shows "$-1$site$ROOT" as contextPath. Hence, urls generated in controller class are having BAD urls.

I am using latest enterprise 2.1 version.

Appreciate early response.