I found the following pages regarding the default servlet for Tomcat and Jetty. Hope they are the docs that David mentioned.
Tomcat: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/default-servlet.html Jetty: http://www.mortbay.org/jetty/jetty-6/apidocs/org/mortbay/jetty/servlet/DefaultServlet.html Juhanay, we're looking forward your sharing on how to enable the feature on Geronimo. I'm pretty sure that your experiences would help others alot. Thanks Jeff C On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Quintin Beukes <[email protected]>wrote: > Now I learn something new. Thanks :> > > Quintin Beukes > > > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:35 PM, David Jencks <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Quintin Beukes wrote: > > > >> Why does it have to have a servlet at all? > > > > You need a default servlet to serve static content. Jetty and tomcat > > install one by default in each web app (unless you override it) but these > > automatic default servlets serve content from inside the war. If you > pack > > stuff up in a war, you shouldn't need any servlet :-). If you want the > > content served from somewhere else, you need to configure a default > servlet > > to tell it where the "somewhere else" is. > > > > hope this is clearer :-) > > david jencks > > > > > >> > >> Quintin Beukes > >> > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:05 PM, David Jencks <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> On Oct 13, 2009, at 8:31 AM, juhanay wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> Hi > >>>> My problem is simple. How to deploy plain html-files or a directory to > a > >>>> user without packing these things is a war file(like apache web server > >>>> does). So that the user may browse the directory stucture with the > >>>> browser. > >>>> WAR-file is not viable option since i cannot pack all the files in a > war > >>>> file. > >>> > >>> Why not? > >>> > >>> Assuming you have a good answer to that question :-) you can set up a > >>> web > >>> app that has only the default servlet for the web container you are > using > >>> (jetty or tomcat) and configure it to serve static content from > wherever > >>> it > >>> actually is. Unfortunately I don't have an example of how to do this > >>> handy, > >>> but I suspect either jetty or tomcat documentation might explain how to > >>> do > >>> this. It would be a good thing to get into our docs as well (assuming > it > >>> isn't already there and I just don't know about it). > >>> > >>> thanks > >>> david jencks > >>> > >>>> -- > >>>> View this message in context: > >>>> > >>>> > http://www.nabble.com/How-to-deploy-plain-html-files-with-geronimo--tp25875139s134p25875139.html > >>>> Sent from the Apache Geronimo - Users mailing list archive at > >>>> Nabble.com. > >>>> > >>> > >>> > > > > >
