Hi: I tried this but when I add the servlet and servlet-mapping tags to the web.xml, Tomcat throws an error during startup!
ERROR reading java.io.ByteArrayInputStream@76cad3 At Line 57 /web-app/servlet/ I tried adding the mappings to web.xml files in /conf and my web application...neither a success.. Am I doing something wrong? All I want to do is send the request to my index.jsp page which will check for something and then serve the file out! Thanks Prashanth --- Milt Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Prashanth Pushpagiri wrote: > > > Hello everyone: > > I am using Tomcat 4.0.4 on IIS. I would like to > know if there is a > > way of forwarding requests of a particular pattern > to a JSP i > > specify using Tomcat? > > > > For eg. say the user requests for a file like > > /examples/dln/sample.doc I want tomcat to forward > the request to a > > JSP /examples/index.jsp instead of serving the > file out. I guess > > this is similar to what servlet mapping is! A > particular URI pattern > > '/examples/dln' should be forwarded to a > particular JSP > > '/examples/index.jsp'. > > > > Any advice and assistance on this would be very > helpful. > > Yes, you can do this. > > Just define a servlet in your web.xml, and instead > of specifying a > servlet-class, specify a jsp-file. Then you can > specify > servlet-mapping's back to that servlet. A la: > > <servlet> > <servlet-name>somename</servlet-name> > <jsp-file>index.jsp</jsp-file> > ... > </servlet> > > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>somename</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>/dln</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > > (You used to be able to specify the jsp-file right > in the > servlet-mapping -- i.e. instead of the servlet-name > -- but it looks > like that was changed in the 2.3 spec. I think the > above gives the > same effect, just with the extra expense of having > to come up with a > servlet name :-). > > Milt Epstein > Research Programmer > Systems and Technology Services (STS) > Campus Information Technologies and Educational > Services (CITES) > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
