Working With Web Applications; Using The Web-Apps.xml File; Deploying Web Applications Using Wdeploy - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 04-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

• You can specify it after the server is installed.
To specify the path to the JDK, switch to the Enterprise Application Server,
select the Global Settings tab, and use the Configure JRE/JDK Paths page, as
described in "Configuring JRE/JDK Paths," on page 57. You can also change
the path to the JDK in this page.
Whether you specify the path to the JDK during installation or later, the path is the
folder in which you installed the JDK.

Working with Web Applications

The following sections describe how to deploy, edit, and delete web applications
either manually by using the
interface.

Using the web-apps.xml File

Before you deploy web applications, you must modify the
which is specific to Enterprise Server. Each virtual server has its own
file, which defines contexts for a set of web applications running in
web-apps.xml
that virtual server. The context information includes a context path of the web
application and other properties such as how it handles session management or
authentication.
Once deployed, your web applications are enabled by default. To disable a
deployed web application manually you would need to modify the
file as follows:
<vs>
<web-app uri="/mywebapp" dir="/webappdir" enable = "false" >
</web-app>
If you inadvertently deploy or edit more than one web application with the same
description, and one of them is disabled, the server will ignore
and continue with default setting of
For more information about the
Server Programmer's Guide to Servlets.

Deploying Web Applications Using wdeploy

Before you can deploy a web application manually, you must make sure that the
server_root
/bin/https/httpsadmin/bin
environment variable is set to your server_root directory.
NES_SERVER_HOME
command line utility, or through the user
wdeploy
enable = "true"
file, see the Netscape Enterprise
web-apps.xml
directory is in your path and that the
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web-apps.xml
web-app.xml
enable = "false"
.
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