This trick isn't necessary in Tomcat 5.x and servlet spec 2.4. Welcome
files as listed in the web.xml are each appended to the remote user's
request and the result is processed until it resolves to a servlet or file.
--David
Geiglein, Gary wrote:
If you create a file in the root of the context (any file, could be an
empty file, it just needs to show up in a directory listing) then map
your servlet to the same URL you would use to reference the file, then
add the file to the welcome-file-list and it will work.
Tomcat will not forward to a welcome file unless it shows up in the
directory. But once you map the servlet to the same URL, the servlet
will intercept the request.
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:25 AM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: servlet mapping and url
Hi,
I don't think there is any restriction to mapping a servlet to a welcome
page:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.company.app.MyServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/myServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>/myServlet</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
Also, I'm not as sure, put I think just mapping the servlet to / will do
the trick as well. Both are easy enough to test though, give it a shot
and post back your results for the archives.
Frank
s s wrote:
i want to invoke a servlet using url like http://localhost:8080 only
i have done it using http://localhost:8080/index.html where index.html
is a servlet. Is it possible to load this servlet as a default just like
a default web page. The point is i want a servlet to recieve a request
when url http://localhost:8080 is referenced i.e without the servlet
name.
is it possible?
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