oops, I thought you still talked about the web.xml welcome file :)
my mistake
Filip
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Filip Hanik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 5:35 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: default page
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>
>not true, look at this web.xml entry. will list the file /test/filip.jsp as
>welcome file
>
> <welcome-file-list>
> <welcome-file>
> test/filip.jsp
> </welcome-file>
>
>Filip
>
>~
>Namaste - I bow to the divine in you
>~
>Filip Hanik
>Software Architect
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>www.filip.net
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ross Dyson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 5:25 PM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: RE: default page
>>
>>
>>And if they type the URL for a page that is down one level, what
>>will you do
>>then?
>>
>>You need to look at putting data in the session to check if they
>>have logged
>>in, if they haven't you need to send them to your login page.
>>
>>You gotta write the code, its not something that can be done just through
>>configuration. Well, you can do some things through configuration.
>>
>>Ross.
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Chris Huisman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Friday, 8 June 2001 10:08 AM
>>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>>Subject: RE: default page
>>
>>
>>I'm going to try and clarify what I would like to do.
>>When I type in http://localhost, I do not want to see the Tomcat
>index.html
>>page. I also do not want to see the directory listing. I NEED to see my
>>applications login screen. It is imperative that the user never sees the
>>directory listing, but they MUST see the login screen wherever a directory
>>listing would show up.
>>My webapp is in the webapps directory. The login page is in:
>> webapps/myApplication/login.jsp
>>One directory deeper:
>> webapps/myApplication/userPages
>>contains all of the pages that the user will go to.
>>So I do not want the user to see the myApplication directory, or the
>>userPages directory. I now setting the StaticInterceptor suppress value to
>>true, makes the directories unavailable, but I need to see a user page
>>(specifically the login screen).
>>Sorry to be so verbose.
>>Again Any help is appreciated.
>>Chris.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Filip Hanik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 5:42 PM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: RE: default page
>>
>>
>>in server.xml (conf directory)
>>add your context as the root context
>> <Context path="/"
>> docBase="webapps/yourcontext"
>> crossContext="false"
>> debug="0"
>> reloadable="true" >
>> </Context>
>>Filip
>>~
>>Namaste - I bow to the divine in you
>>~
>>Filip Hanik
>>Software Architect
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>www.filip.net
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Chris Huisman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 4:21 PM
>>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>>Subject: default page
>>
>>
>>I would like to have the login page of my webapp show up when the user
>>enters the url http://localhost (or whatever the machine name
>is). I would
>>also like the login page to appear when the user types in
>>http://localhost/web-app-name . I am able to do this using
>Tomcat 3.1, but
>>I need to do it in 3.2 as well.
>>Any suggestions would be helpful.
>>Thank you
>>
>>
>>Chris Huisman B.Sc. Specialization in Computing Science
>>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Software Developer http://www.matrikon.com
>>Matrikon Phone: (780) 448-1010
>>(ext. 4601)
>>Suite 1800 10405 Jasper Avenue Fax: (780) 448-9191
>>Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5J 3N4
>>
>>
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