Luis- there's nothing wrong with your code, but Rusty is also right. The trick is to create an empty file called the same name as your action (e.g. start.action) at the root of your web app. Tomcat will see the empty file and then call your action directly.
2009/8/30 Luis Martín Canaval Sánchez <[email protected]>: > My bad, I´m really sorry the code I posted is totally wrong. please ignore > it. I usually start with a index.jsp or html as a welcome page. > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 18:37, Rusty Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Luis, are you using tomcat? I've tried that but it only works for me when >> the welcome-file is a actual, physical file in the ~tomcat/webapps/myapp >> directory. >> >> >> Luis Martín Canaval Sánchez wrote: >> >>> This is my preffered choice, just a welcome page defined in the web.xml >>> file >>> <welcome-file-list> >>> <welcome-file>start.action</welcome-file> >>> </welcome-file-list> >>> </web-app> >>> >>> No redirects just straight to the action. >>> >>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 17:34, Rusty Wright <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Is there a preferred way to "jump start" a web app when the user starts >>>> at >>>> the top; e.g., they use the url >>>> >>>> http://somehost.com/myapp/ >>>> >>>> What I'm doing now is putting a redirect in index.jsp, as follows. Is >>>> there a better way? >>>> >>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> >>>> >>>> <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %> >>>> >>>> <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"; %> >>>> >>>> <c:redirect >>>> url="/start.action" >>>> /> >>>> >>>> I want the naked, top url to have an action. >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> 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] >> >> > > > -- > Ing. Luis Martín Canaval Sánchez > Keep it small and simple. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
