mod_rewrite worked!  Here is the solution:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/$ /home.htm [R]

This is a problem I've been grappling with for a year!  Thanks
everyone!

Pietro da Alvin
719-210-3858

Chi cerca trova (Who searches, finds)
Italian Proverb


On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 08:58:40 -0400, Tim Funk wrote:
>In tomcat 4.X a welcome file cannot be a servlet. It must be a file.
>(This rule changes with servlet api 2.4) So for now, you can be
>tricky, for example:
>
>I have a servlet mapped to *.cowbell.
>
>I create an (empty) file called index.cowbell. I also make sure my
>welcome file listing includes index.cowbell, and I make sure apache
>knows about index.cowbell via the DirectoryIndex.
>
>While index.cowbell, the file is not touched, index.cowbell the
>servlet will be invoked.
>
>-Tim
>
>Jo�l Wijngaarde [Us Media] wrote:
>>Can't you use a RewriteRule (see
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-
>>2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html) from within apache to rewrite the default
>>URL to an URL pointing at your servlet.
>>
>>Or maybe even a configure a filter in your web.xml doing the
>>redirect?
>>
>>- Joel
>>
>>On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 14:08, Tim Funk wrote:
>>
>>>Then your out of luck.
>>>
>>>-Tim
>>>
>>>Peter Alvin wrote:
>>>
>>>>Thank you.  I tried DirectoryIndex but it looks like that looks
>>>>for a file on the filesystem and all my webpages are all served
>>>>from the servlet.
>>>>
>>>>Pietro da Alvin 719-210-3858
>>>>
>>>>Chi cerca trova (Who searches, finds) Italian Proverb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 07:17:23 -0400, Tim Funk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>add index.jsp as a default file to apache config
>>>>>
>>>>>DirectoryIndex index.jsp index.html more_cowbell.html
>>>>>
>>>>>-Tim
>>>>>
>>>>>Peter Alvin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>When someone types:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>www.site.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Apache serves index.html which I added an an immediate redirect
>>>>>to
>>>>>>load the "real" site's homepage which is a Java servlet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Does anyone know how to configure Apache, DNS, or MOD_SSL to go
>>>>>>directly to the servlet for the home page?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>- Apache 1.3.27 - mod_ssl-2.8.12-1.3.27 - openssl-0.9.7a
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Pietro da Alvin
>>>>>>
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