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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by SH Solutions <in...@sh-solutions.de> on 2003/12/02 00:58:51 UTC
Servlet as Welcome File doesn't work
Hello.
I'm using tomcat 4.1.29 on debian and I have the following problem:
I need to get "/" handled by my Servlet "myPackage.Root", but I do not want
to change the mapping of ordinary files.
Just as a welcome file would, but welcome-file does not apply to servlets,
right?
My solutions so far is to map "/" to my servlet an map any other folder with
distinct context's, what surely is'nt what it was meant to be.
I did search the web and the usenet for a long time, since I assumed not to
be the first to run into this problem. But I didn't find anything.
Be aware that I did not enable the jsp-servlet, since I am not using jsps at
all.
If anyone can help me, I would appreciate it very much.
Thanks,
Steffen
PS: No native English speaker here - sorry.
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Re: Servlet as Welcome File doesn't work
Posted by Rainer Stransky <Ra...@so-fa.de>.
edit the $CATALINA_HOME/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml if you want the "root"
application to show an custom welcome-file
and put
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>myFile.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
to the <web-app> tag.
This works on my tomcat 5.0
Rainer
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Re: Servlet as Welcome File doesn't work
Posted by bs...@fwdco.com.
That feature has been added in version 5x.
Prior to that you have to map to a static file or a JSP.
On Monday 01 December 2003 06:58 pm, you wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm using tomcat 4.1.29 on debian and I have the following problem:
> I need to get "/" handled by my Servlet "myPackage.Root", but I do not want
> to change the mapping of ordinary files.
> Just as a welcome file would, but welcome-file does not apply to servlets,
> right?
>
> My solutions so far is to map "/" to my servlet an map any other folder
> with distinct context's, what surely is'nt what it was meant to be.
>
> I did search the web and the usenet for a long time, since I assumed not to
> be the first to run into this problem. But I didn't find anything.
> Be aware that I did not enable the jsp-servlet, since I am not using jsps
> at all.
>
> If anyone can help me, I would appreciate it very much.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steffen
>
>
> PS: No native English speaker here - sorry.
>
>
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AW: Servlet as Welcome File doesn't work
Posted by SH Solutions <in...@sh-solutions.de>.
Hi
I found an solution to force tomcat 4.1.29 to use servlets as welcome files.
My applications web.xml:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Root</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.osiris4.servlets.Root</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Root</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/root</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>root</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
The problem on this was that tomcat checks for the very existence of the
file "root", before actually invoking the servlet. The trick is to simply
have an empty file "root" in the applications docRoot directory.
If this is a problem for you, simply use another name for that file - e.g.
use the servlets name.
Thanks your answers anyway.
Steffen
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