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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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