Hi, I have question for which I'm sure there must a simple solution - I just haven't found it yet and so I hope someone can give me a hint.
I'm writing a small GWT application where there's only one static page (index.html) and many dynamic pages which I'll create on the fly from data in a database given a key. What I want to achieve is this: http://www.domain.com should serve the main page (index.html) http://www.domain.com/xyz should serve page xyz, where xyz is just any key for which I want to do a look up in a database. If there is an item associated with key xyz, I'll load that, otherwise I'll show a 404 error page. I was trying to modify the web.xml file accordingly but I couldn't make it work. I could only make it work with an url-pattern if the key is after another /, for example www.domain.com/search/xyz. However, I'd like to have xyz directly following the root / (www.domain.com/ xyz). Something like <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>main</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> doesn't seem to work as I don't know how to address the main page index.html (as it's not an actual servlet) which will then load my main GWT module. I could make it work with a bad work around (see below): Redirecting a 404 exception to index.html and then doing the look up in the main entry point, but I'm sure that's not the best practice, also for SEO purposes. Can anyone give me a hint on how to configure the web.xml with GWT for my purpose? Thanks a lot. Mike ---- Work-around 404: Web.xml ------------- <web-app> <error-page> <exception-type>404</exception-type> <location>/index.html</location> </error-page> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> </web-app> index.html --> Main Entry point --> onModuleLoad(): ------------- String path = Window.Location.getPath(); if (path == null || path.length() == 0 || path.equalsIgnoreCase("/") || path.equalsIgnoreCase("/index.html")) { // load main page } else { lookup(path.substring(1)); // that's key xyz }
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