Yeah, I thought so too, but it needed the "dummy" file in the static
directory before it actually worked for me.
I will check into using mod_rewrite -- sounds like a good idea.
Thanks to both of you. :)
-Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dmitri Colebatch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Apache Default Document is .jsp?
> I would have thought that if you change the DirectoryIndex instruction (I
> think thats it) in the httpd.conf to use index.jsp first, and you have
> mounted *.jsp to go to tomcat then it should work. haven't done it myself
> though.
>
> cheers
> dim
>
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:40, you wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm getting ready to setup tomcat and Apache on seperate machines.
Before
> > getting started on that project, on my development machine, I set the
> > default "DocumentRoot" for apache to a different directory (for static
> > content) than my webapp (which will eventually sit on a different
machine).
> >
> > I'd like to have my "login.jsp" be my default document, but was only
able
> > to get it to work by putting a "dummy" login.jsp in the HTML
directory...
> > Otherwise, Apache would just show a normal index of the directory...
> >
> > Is this the only way to get this to work? Or am I missing somthing?
BTW,
> > I'm on Tomcat 3.2.1 and Apache 1.3.19...
> >
> > Thanks for any ideas.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Scott
>
