2009/6/9 Bill Barker <wbar...@wilshire.com>: > >> Incidentally I discovered you can't <welcome-file-list> by having an empty >> element, you have to have at least one <welcome-file> in there or the >> default servlet will use the one in $CATALINA_BASE/conf/web.xml . Bug or >> feature? > > I'd say an enhancement rather than a bug, since you can always do (as you > have discovered): > <welcome-file-list> > <welcome-file>index.doesnotexist</welcome-file> > </welcome-file-list> > > For the benifit of the archives, this of course assumes that you have set > replaceWelcomeFiles="true" in the <Context ... /> element. >
The above said about "replaceWelcomeFiles" is wrong. That property is not documented and is used by Tomcat internals only. It is automatically switched on before processing a web.xml file, and thus its initial value, as specified in context file, does not matter. The welcome files list in a web application always replaces the default one. In web-app_2_3.dtd there is <!ELEMENT welcome-file-list (welcome-file+)> so the list cannot be empty. In 2.4 and 2.5 schemas the minOccurs attribute for "welcome-file" element is 1 (the default value), so the list cannot be empty either. Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
