alias servlet in Tomcat

[AC <an...@portalwave.com>]

Hi,

I am using Tomcat 3.1 and I need to shorten URL such that if I type in
<http://servername:port/>, it will get to the login servlet page. Basically,
I
have a servlet like com.abc.login and I was able to alias it to
<http://servername:port/login> but I can't figure out a way to alias it
further such that even "login" following the servername is not necessary.
The way I mapped the login servlet is by adding the following to web.xml,

<servlet>
<servlet-name>
sl
</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
com.abc.login
</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>
sl
</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>
/login
</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Does anyone know how to configure it so all I need is
<http://servername:port/>?

Thank you!

Re: alias servlet in Tomcat

["Brett W. McCoy" <bm...@chapelperilous.net>]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, AC wrote:

> Does anyone know how to configure it so all I need is
> <http://servername:port/>?

We solved this problem by having an index.jsp in the root directory that
does a little bit of validation (checking for cookie support, etc.), then
redirects to the real login servlet.

-- Brett
                                     http://www.chapelperilous.net/~bmccoy/
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