Ok thanks, I will do that. I just spent some time writing a little stats bean and it would suck if I had to go back and use an asp.
-wiley -----Original Message----- From: John Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 1:11 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Tomcat and IIS 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 > > > -----Original Message----- > 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > > -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
