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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Brad Taylor <bt...@western-metal-supply.com> on 2004/09/01 21:16:49 UTC
How do I make my servlet the welcome page
I am running tomcat 5.0.9. I currently enter a url like
http://localhost:8080/myapp. This causes a "redirect" page to be
briefly displayed followed by my servlet getting invoked and serving the
"real" page. I would like to bypass this redirect, but can not seem to
get it to work. I have tried changing my welcome-file-list to mypage.do
and I have tried creating a servlet-mapping specifying index.html.
Content of ....\conf\Catalina\localhost\myapp.xml
<Context path="/myapp"
docBase="C:\eclipse\workspace\com.mycom\myapp\ui.html"
debug="0"
privileged="true"/>
Index.html exists in the above directory
This is the essential contents of WEB-INF\web.xm in above directory
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<web-app>
<display-name>Myapp</display-name>
<description>Myapp desc</description>
<welcome-file-list>index.html</welcome-file-list>
<!--
Define myservlet
-->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>myapp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.myapp.ui.MyServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>myapp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Contents of index.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=mypage.do"/>
<title>My page</title>
</head>
<body>
Redirecting to actual navigation page
</body>
</html>
Any help appreciated
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RE: How do I make my servlet the welcome page - resolved
Posted by Brad Taylor <bt...@western-metal-supply.com>.
After trying both suggestions (moving welcome file list to end of
web.xml and adding the 2.4 schema to the web tag), it still did not
work. I tried changing the web.xml in the tomcat\conf directory, it
still did not work. I removed index.html from my directory and it
started displaying the directory. Finally I had the idea of creating an
empty file called mypage.do (same name as my welcome file) and things
started to work. I then reset everything back to how it started,
welcome-file-list at top of web.xml & not 2.4 schema, and it still
works.
So in a nutshell in order for welcome page mechanism to server up a
servlet, a file must exist in the directory, even thou it is never used.
I don't know enough about security to comment on Jonathans concern.
Thanx for y'alls help, I appreciate it.
Thanx
brad
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Re: How do I make my servlet the welcome page
Posted by Jonathan Eric Miller <je...@uchicago.edu>.
The problem that I found with doing it this way is that I had a
security-constraint on my application and it wasn't being enforced when I
tried to do that. So, I created an index page that redirects to the
application.
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "QM" <qm...@brandxdev.net>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: How do I make my servlet the welcome page
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 02:16:49PM -0500, Brad Taylor wrote:
> : I am running tomcat 5.0.9. I currently enter a url like
> : http://localhost:8080/myapp. This causes a "redirect" page to be
> : briefly displayed followed by my servlet getting invoked and serving the
> : "real" page. I would like to bypass this redirect, but can not seem to
> : get it to work. I have tried changing my welcome-file-list to mypage.do
> : and I have tried creating a servlet-mapping specifying index.html.
>
> Change your web.xml to specify the new 2.4 schema , aka:
>
> <web-app
> xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
> http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
> version="2.4"
>>
>
> Then add your servlet's mapping to <welcome-file-list>.
>
>
> [for the archives: using servlets as welcome files is supported as of
> servlet spec 2.4, which Tomcat 5.x implements]
>
> -QM
>
> --
>
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>
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Re: How do I make my servlet the welcome page
Posted by QM <qm...@brandxdev.net>.
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 02:16:49PM -0500, Brad Taylor wrote:
: I am running tomcat 5.0.9. I currently enter a url like
: http://localhost:8080/myapp. This causes a "redirect" page to be
: briefly displayed followed by my servlet getting invoked and serving the
: "real" page. I would like to bypass this redirect, but can not seem to
: get it to work. I have tried changing my welcome-file-list to mypage.do
: and I have tried creating a servlet-mapping specifying index.html.
Change your web.xml to specify the new 2.4 schema , aka:
<web-app
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4"
>
Then add your servlet's mapping to <welcome-file-list>.
[for the archives: using servlets as welcome files is supported as of
servlet spec 2.4, which Tomcat 5.x implements]
-QM
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