Question

I made a small static website for my client and now they want me to replace their present dynamic website with the static one. They have Ubuntu with SSH installed on the remote location. Their existing website is running on a Tomcat6 server and the site root is in “/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT/”.

My website consists of just static HTML pages. How can I reconfigure/ replace the present website with the one I made? Should I just stop the server and replace the files in the site root with my files?

Adding the updated web.xml:

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
   version="2.5">

  <display-name>Welcome to OneLearn</display-name>
  <description>
     Welcome to OneLearn
  </description>
  <session-config>
    <session-timeout>60</session-timeout>
  </session-config>


<servlet>
<servlet-name>HelloServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>HelloServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>HelloServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/HelloServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>


<servlet>
<servlet-name>linegraph</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.FlexiApps.graphs.LineGraphServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>linegraph</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/linegraph</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<servlet>
<servlet-name>piechart</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.FlexiApps.graphs.PiechartServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
ssawqfxz<servlet-name>piechart</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/piechart</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>welcome</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.FlexiApps.utils.welcome</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>welcome</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/welcome</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.jpg</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.png</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.css</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.js</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

<jsp-config>
  <taglib>
    <taglib-uri>http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/log-1.0</taglib-uri>
    <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/lib/taglibs-log.tld</taglib-location>
  </taglib>
</jsp-config>

      <listener>
  <listener-class>
    org.apache.commons.fileupload.servlet.FileCleanerCleanup
  </listener-class>
</listener>


</web-app>

Even after adding a welcome-file and adding the suggested servlet mappings, tomcat doesn’t seem to detect any new files added to the ROOT folder.

Answer 1

I found a work-around to my problem:

1. I installed Tomcat6 on my Eclipse in Windows.
2. I created a Dynamic Web Project.
3. Put all my static content in the WebContent folder.
4. Ran the server to verify everything is in order.
5. Exported a WAR file from the project, checked “Optimize for a specific server runtime” option, runtime being “Apache Tomcat v6.0”.
6. I cleaned up the /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT folder on the ftp linux server and reset all other settings to default.
7. Extracted the WAR file in ROOT folder.
8. Restarted tomcat6 using: /etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart
9. I could successfully see my static website under “http://myIP:8080/”
10. I wanted tomcat6 to work without this port number. The following link was very useful: http://bhou.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/how-to-install-and-configure-tomcat-6-in-ubuntu-server/
11. My static website could be navigated to by typing in “http://myIP/”

Eclipse generated web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
  <display-name>StaticWebsite</display-name>
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>default.htm</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>