set the welcome file list element to the URL address you want to default to
Something like -
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>pages/main.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
This will default a user going to your context to the file pages/main.jsp -
Tomcat (4.1) has a few default context attributes which are located in the
CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml which a context will default to if the welcome
file list element is not specified - they are as follows
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
HTH
S.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Eade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 6:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: servlet-mapping problem - tomcat 4.0.1
How do I default a user to my servlet without blocking access
to other directories? Using a default mapping of "/" results in
failure to gain access to resources under my servlet directory.
I think I have a fairly standard set-up of tomcat 4.0.1 on win2k.
Within C:\jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1\webapps I have a directory
structure like this:
myapp
styles
global.css
WEB_INF
web.xml
lib
[jar files]
web.xml defines a servlet whose output includes a reference to
http://mysite.com/myapp/styles/global.css
If I set my servlet mapping up like this:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>myapp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
then the stylesheet cannot be loaded when the user surfs to
http://mysite.com/myapp/
Alternatively if I set up my mapping like this:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>myapp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/foo/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
then the stylesheet can be located, but the user must surf to
http://mysite.com/myapp/foo/
How can I configure tomcat or structure my directories so that
a user can surf to http://mysite.com/myapp/ and also successfully
access the stylesheet?
Note that the above is a contrived example. The real servlet
includes many other resources in the myapp directory to which
the servlet refers.
Any advice would be most welcome.
Thanks,
Scott
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