Problems with Apache and custom JSPs

Question

Hi
We've made an application on top of IFS, using JWS in our test envirnment. Just before making some stress tests, I'd like to try it using Apache. We're currently having two problems:
1) I switch to the apache configuration running ifsconfig and not selecting JWS. When I try to access the ifs using http://host/ifs/files, everything goes well except that the "logout" icon doesn't appear. I did a little research and found out that the link goes to /ifs/webui/images/logout.gif. This gives an error in mod_jserv.log, like this one:
[07/06/2001 22:54:20:315] (ERROR) ajp12: Servlet Error: ClassNotFoundException: webui
It seems it's trying to find a "webui" class, since in ifs.properties every url that begins with /ifs goes to jserv.
I don't know if this is a know problem or what should I've check...
2) This one is more important. We're using some custom JSPs, which we use to edit the properties of some types of documents. Basically, when the user clicks over a file one of our JSP appears. These JSPs call a bean to do some processing, passing the HttpRequest as a parameter. The problem is that when using JWS we get the "path" request variable like in path=/%3A29464
However, when using Apache we get path=/ifs/files/%3A29464 ( and afterwards we get an exception because the ifsSession.getPublicObject method doesn't work).
Any hints on this? One way could be to check if the path begins with /ifs/files, but that's not really nice.. and besides I could have the same problem in some other parts.
It's kind of urgent....
Thanks
Ramiro
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Answer 1

Hi,
The answer to your path problem is that you can make use of API to find out the current path so that it works both with Apache and with JWS. Follow the steps
1. import the oracle.ifs.adk.http package in your custom jsps
<%@ page import = "oracle.ifs.adk.http.*" %>
2. Then within your jsp use the method
getIfsPathFromJSPRedirect
<%= oracle.ifs.adk.http.HttpUtils.getIfsPathFromJSPRedirect(request) %>
This will give you the current path of the object on which you clicked on and which initiates the custom jsp.
You can look at the CMS application which has made use of this API. URL is
http://otn.oracle.com/sample_code/products/ifs/sample_code_index.htm
Choose, sample applicatin -> Content Management system.
Hope this helps
Rajesh
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