In your webapp have dir
http://servername:port/context/static/ for all your static content
http://servername:port/context/dynamic/ for all your dynamic content
URL Pattern
<URL-pattern>/dynamic/*</URL-pattern>
guru
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Diggins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 May 2005 15:26
To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: url-pattern in web.xml -- looking for explanations and best
practice
Hi-
I'm trying to configure my tomcat 5.0.28 webapp so that one servlet (a
Spring dispatcher as it happens, but that's irrelevant) receives
virtually everything except standard static non-text file patterns
(*.css, *.png, *.gif, etc.) which I want served up statically.
I've been trying various options for url-pattern within servlet mapping
and have been getting very confused... Some questions therefore...
1) Is there a definition / documentation of what the syntax for a
url-pattern is? I've tried and tried googling and looking, but can't
find such a thing (I'm not sure that it's standardised across different
containers, but there seems to be no definition in the tomcat docs that
I could find). Obviously, if anyone can refer me to this, then I don't
need the other questions answered!
2) is there any way to say - if a url includes a ~ (tilde character)
then route it to a particular servlet. The following give errors:
<url-pattern>*~*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>~/</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>~*</url-pattern>
But oddly the following doesn't:
<url-pattern>*.~</url-pattern>
*error looks like:
11-May-2005 15:13:07 org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig
applicationConfig
SEVERE: Parse error in application web.xml
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid <url-pattern> ~/*.* in
servlet mapping
at
org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.createSAXException(Digester.java
:2540)
at
org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.createSAXException(Digester.java
:2566)
----------------------
3) is there any way to specify NO extension (like a request for
directory) and exclude things with an extension?
4) is there any way to specify what you want to go to the default
(static) servlet and then state a sink for anything else (invert the
default-specific servlet mapping in other words).
5) is there some obvious best practice I'm missing here (excluding
making my urls less interpretable).
Many thanks
Tim
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