Migrating from 4.1 to 6.1, deploy issues

Question

Problem with deploying WAR File in Sun One Web Server 6.1
Current Setup
We currently run IPlanet 4.1, LDAP 4, JDK1.2.2. We have a web server running on a specific port. For this webserver we have config files obj.conf, etc, and our servlets are configured using rules.properties and servlets.properties.
Extract from obj.conf:
NameTrans fn="redirect" from="/public/prices" url="http://1.23.0.3:7194/other/public/Prices.html"
NameTrans fn="pfx2dir" from="/images" dir="/opt/nettrade/stp2/images"
NameTrans fn="pfx2dir" from="/other" dir="/opt/nettrade/stp2/other"
NameTrans fn="home-page" path="/opt/nettrade/stp2/other/public/StaticHomepage.html"
NameTrans fn="document-root" root="/opt/nettrade/stp2/html"Extract from servlets.properties:
servlet.GenericPublicPage.classpath=/export/home/eileenq/netDev/front/jars/JHCnettradePages.jar
servlet.GenericPublicPage.code=ie.davy.nettrade.presentation.servlets.GenericPublicPageServletExtract from rules.properties:
/public/GenericPublicPage=GenericPublicPageAll servlets are located in a jar file, JHCnettadePages.jar
Upgrade Setup
We plan to upgrade our setup to LDAP 5.2, JDK1.4.2 and Sun One Webserver 6.1
I have setup a webserver, https-Nettrade-public, and have restructured our servlets into a valid WAR file, Nettrade.war, which I can deploy.
Extract from obj.conf:
NameTrans fn="redirect" from="/public/prices" url=http://172.16.116.142:7010/other/public/Prices.html
NameTrans fn="pfx2dir" from="/images" dir="/opt/nettrade/stp2/images"
NameTrans fn="pfx2dir" from="/other" dir="/opt/nettrade/stp2/other"
NameTrans fn="home-page" path="/opt/nettrade/stp2/other/public/StaticHomepage.html"
NameTrans fn="document-root" root="/opt/nettrade/stp2/html"
Extract from web.xml:
  <servlet>
  <servlet-name>startup</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>ie.davy.nettrade.presentation.framework.DavysStartupServlet</servlet-class>
  <init-param>
    <param-name>switchfile</param-name>
    <param-value>/opt/nettrade/stp2/config/dbswitch.conf</param-value>
  </init-param>
  <init-param>
    <param-name>context</param-name>
    <param-value>CLRTRADE</param-value>
  </init-param>
  <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet>
  <servlet-name>GenericPublicPage</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>ie.davy.nettrade.presentation.servlets.GenericPublicPageServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>GenericPublicPage</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/public/GenericPublicPage</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Appliation URI: /Nettrade
Installation Directory: /usr/netscape/https-Nettrade-public/webapps/https-Nettrade-public
When I deploy as above, the startup servlet in my web.xml file (in war file) runs correctly, and all redirections, etc in my obj.conf work:
/public/prices" redirects to " http://172.16.116.142:7010/other/public/Prices.html"
"/images" maps to "/opt/nettrade/stp2/images"
�/other" maps to "/opt/nettrade/stp2/other"
And the homepage setting is picked up successfully.
However, the servlets do not work as expected. When I click on a link from the homepage to a servlet:
     http://172.16.116.142:7010/public/GenericPublicPage?page=careers
I get a page not found error, and this in the error log:
[31/Mar/2005:11:49:27] warning ( 5170): for host 1.12.0.227 trying to GET /public/GenericPublicPage, send-file reports: HTTP4142: can't find /opt/nettrade/stp2/html/public/GenericPublicPage (File not found)
But if I include the /Nettrade URI specified at deployment time:
http://172.16.116.142:7010/Nettrade/public/GenericPublicPage?page=careers
the servlet runs.
I then tried to deploy to �/� instead of �/Nettrade�:
Appliation URI: /
Installation Directory: /usr/netscape/https-Nettrade-public/webapps/https-Nettrade-public
And when I restart my web server, the homepage cannot be displayed:
[31/Mar/2005:11:55:03] warning ( 5188): for host 1.12.0.227 trying to GET /, send-error reports: HTTP4143: error opening /opt/nettrade/stp2/html/noindex.html (File not found)
and it seems like the obj.conf is ignored. My �/images� mapping does not map to �/opt/nettrade/stp2/images� as referenced in my obj.conf file:
[31/Mar/2005:11:55:49] warning ( 5188): for host 1.12.0.227 trying to GET /images/davy-logo.gif, send-file reports: HTTP4142: can't find /usr/netscape/https-Nettrade-public/webapps/https-Nettrade-public/images/davy-logo.gif (File not found)
But my servlet works:
http://172.16.116.142:7010/public/GenericPublicPage?page=careers
[31/Mar/2005:11:56:32] info ( 5188): for host 1.12.0.227 trying to GET /public/GenericPublicPage
But the images referenced in the html are not mapped correctly
[31/Mar/2005:11:56:33] warning ( 5188): for host 1.12.0.227 trying to GET /images/section-trading-1.gif, send-file reports: HTTP4142: can't find /usr/netscape/https-Nettrade-public/webapps/https-Nettrade-public/images/section-trading-1.gif (File not found)
anyone have any ideas for how to get servlets working in a war file and director mappings outside of a war file working too?
Thanks

Answer 1

elving,
Thanks for your reply.
I did what you said, and deployed again to the URI "/". This time all obj.conf mappings worked, but the servlets didnt.
I then took out a document-root line from the obj.conf, and all is working now.
This line must have been confusing things too.
Thanks for your help.
I am sure I will be back on to this forum in the near future.