Ooo. The idea from Dennis Muhlestein seems better than my tactic. What a neat idea. Think I might switch to doing it this way.
To quote his posting: "Anyway, I added index.do to the list of files for apache to automatically pull up and then just made a dummy file called index.do tomcat gets the request and it works just fine." -----Original Message----- From: Dariusz Wojtas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 18:30 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re[2]: Welcome file and struts That topic was discussed here http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg34650.html Darek Friday, August 16, 2002, 12:30:00 PM, you wrote: MD> I don�t want get impatient ;-), but usually there is a lot more action here! MD> It�s just my luck that when I answer a question, everyone seems to be on MD> vacation :-) ! MD> Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there a workaround? MD> Thanks, MD> Michael MD> ----- Original Message ----- MD> From: "Michael Delamere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MD> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MD> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 10:32 AM MD> Subject: Welcome file and struts >> Hi folks! >> >> I have got a question concerning the welcome file in the web.xml. I have >> tried the following: >> >> <welcome-file-list> >> <welcome-file>/index.do</welcome-file> >> </welcome-file-list> >> >> Could it be that tomcat has problems with this because the file doesn�t >> physically exist? The reason for assuming this is that index.vm (velocity >> template) seems to work!? >> >> Could someone please give me some guidelines on how to get tomcat to load MD> my >> index.do on startup. >> >> Any help would be really appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Michael -- Best regards, Dariusz Wojtas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

