using servlet as index documentation

[Douglas L Stewart <do...@pobox.com>]

I saw that you cannot add a servlet as a welcome-file.  I've seen
suggestions to use an HTML page or a JSP to redirect to a servlet
(doing this currently), but is it possible to use a servlet to be your
opening page?

I tried using / as url-pattern, but it would redirect all URL's to the
servlet.  I tried ^/$ and that didn't work either.

Any ideas?

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Re: using servlet as index documentation

[Jacob Kjome <ho...@visi.com>]

Hello Douglas,

Well, you should be able to provide a servlet-mapping.

Try this....

<servlet>
        <servlet-name>MyIndexPage</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>com.mycompany.MyDefaultServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>MyIndexPage</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/index.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
        <welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>


Jake


Tuesday, September 24, 2002, 9:56:49 AM, you wrote:

DLS> I saw that you cannot add a servlet as a welcome-file.  I've seen
DLS> suggestions to use an HTML page or a JSP to redirect to a servlet
DLS> (doing this currently), but is it possible to use a servlet to be your
DLS> opening page?

DLS> I tried using / as url-pattern, but it would redirect all URL's to the
DLS> servlet.  I tried ^/$ and that didn't work either.

DLS> Any ideas?

DLS> ---
DLS> Douglas L Stewart
DLS> douglas@pobox.com

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