<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>index.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
I think you have to have an empty "index.html" file to convince the
<welcome-list> that its valid.
This will take all index.html files, so if you have other index.html files
in other directories, add a dummy.html to the <welcome-file> list and map it
to your servlet.
I recall doing this in 3.2, so I'm not sure if it still works in 4.0 -
although I don't see why it wouldn't.
Charlie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Eade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 7:54 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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