All you need to do is add a "welcome file" element in web.xml that
points the user at your login action:
<welcome-file>
<welcome-file>welcome.do</welcome-file>
</welcome-file>
This won't work in Tomcat 4, but does work in Tomcat 5. (NOTE: if
you're using Servlet 2.3 or earlier format for your web.xml file, the
order of the elements is defined in the DTD; for Servlet 2.4 or later
you can have them in any order).
Craig
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:38:55 -0600, Kevin Clifton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all. I'm just looking for a quick sanity check before I go off
> to build some pieces....
>
> I'm building out a webapp that will use Struts with Tomcat 5.0.2x. I'm
> planning to run everything under Tomcat and avoid deploying Apache for
> handling static content.
>
> I've prototyped a signup module for the app, and I'm experimenting
> with the behaviour of the module. Currently, the module is at a URL of
> localhost/<servercontext>/signup, and the initial action is setup as
> "welcome.do". So to signup, a user would go to
> localhost/webapp/signup/welcome.do.
>
> Testing this, I entered localhost/webapp/signup as a URL, and Tomcat
> came back with a directory listing. I can disable that in web.xml, but
> then that URL comes back as 404. I tried putting a file named
> index.jsp (which is set up as a welcome file in web.xml) in the
> directory, but I still got a directory listing.
>
> What I'd like to do is have the incomplete URL automatically append
> the "welcome.do" and forward the user to the start of the signup
> module. Ideally, I'd set this up as a pattern for every module in the
> app.
>
> I'm thinking the best way to do this is to extend
> org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet to simply append
> "welcome.do" when the URL doesn't include an action, and then let
> Struts handle everything from there. But before I go do that, I want
> to make sure I'm not missing an easier alternative, either by changing
> my action mapping patterns or pulling some other Struts and/or Tomcat trick.
>
> Any and all advice gratefully accepted!
>
> Thanks,
> Kev
>
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