Switching to Apache wouldn't solve it unless you wanted to use mod_rewrite. Check the archives for last fall...there were bunches of threads on this topic for quite awhile. AFAIK, nothing's changed, though I was off this list for several weeks recently and its very possible someone came up with a workaround that I missed.
John
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:10:14 -0800, jsp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yea, I thought about that( or even an asp redirect, defeats the purpose of using jsp) but I'm trying to get the referrer from the browser into a database and I don’t want index.html as my only referrer :)
I'll try just using tomcat, I would just switch to apache I guess but I paid about 1200 bucks for w2k server 2 years ago and STILL paying on it. Oh well.
Thanks -wiley
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From: John Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 12:57 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Tomcat and IIS
AFAIK, the only way to do this when using Tomcat in conjunction with a web server is a kludge. I do it by making index.html my default home page, and having index.html be nothing but a meta refresh page with a time of "0" to http://www.foo.com/index.jsp. There are other ways...some Apache folks use mod_rewrite.
This means index.jsp will show up in the address bar of the browser. If you don't want that, I'm not sure you can do it. I don't know enough about IIS to know if there is a more elegant way to do it.
If you want to use Tomcat alone, you setup a welcome-file tag/element in your application's web.xml file that has index.jsp as a parameter.
John
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:47:17 -0800, jsp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm trying to get away from ASP. The top file of my website is an index.jsp page. I set the root directory for the website to \<Catalina_home>\webapps\MyWebsite
So when you go to http://www.mywebsite.com the default page in iis is index.jsp but I'm positive that is the wrong way to do this because the only way jsp will work is if you type into the browser
http://www.mywebsite.com/MyWebsite/index.jsp
maybe this is not a tomcat related question but I'm hoping someone could be doing this and give me some type of CLUE ?
Basically when you go to http://www.mywebsite.com I want the top file to be a functioning .jsp page because I don’t want to use an ASP stats program.
Hopefully it makes sense
-wiley
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