@michael: you can use a jsf page as welcome file - just remove the leading slash.
regards, gerhard http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces 2010/8/9 Michael Kurz <[email protected]> > Would be interesting if anyone else has encountered this problem so far? > > Am 09.08.2010 18:53, schrieb Michael Kurz: > > This is a strange problem. I tried your example and it turned out that >> the server gets confused if you use a JSF view as welcome file. >> >> Simply create an html file index.html with the following content and use >> this as welcome file: >> >> <html> >> <head> >> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=index.xhtml"> >> </head> >> </html> >> >> Should work. >> >> If you are interested, the real problem was that the path returned from >> the servlet request was //index.xhtml and JSF can't find the state for >> the view which is /index.xhtml. Strange, but I didn't dig further into >> this issue. >> >> regards >> Michael >> >> Am 09.08.2010 17:21, schrieb Roman: >> >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Michael Kurz wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I don't know if it solves the problem but an action method should >>>> normally return a String value. Simply return null to stay on the same >>>> page. >>>> >>>> >>> I have fixed that, thanks. The same exception is still always thrown. >>> >>> Roman >>> >>> regards >>>> Michael >>>> >>>> Am 09.08.2010 13:28, schrieb Roman: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi. >>>>> I have a very simple test application written using MyFaces 1.2.9 and >>>>> RichFaces 3.3.3. And I get this exception >>>>> javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException - /xhtml/index.xhtmlNo >>>>> saved view state could be found for the view identifier: >>>>> /xhtml/index.xhtml >>>>> every time I press the commandButton. >>>>> >>>>> I have attached all files web.xml, faces-config.xml, index.xhtml and >>>>> Bean.java. >>>>> >>>>> Is there something wrong in the configuration? I really do not have any >>>>> idea what is cousing this error. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for any help. >>>>> Roman >>>>> >>>> >>>>

