/, welcome files, and 404

[kikibobo <eb...@boboco.ie>]

Hi,

I've got a spring 2 webmvc based webapp deployed on Tomcat 5.5.20 that is
exhibiting some curious behaviour.  Call my application "myapp", deployed as
an exploded directory.

What I am seeing is that when I hit http://myhost/myapp/, I get a 404, but
if I hit http://myhost/myapp/index.html, it works.

It seems like hitting /myapp/ should trigger the welcome file, which
includes index.html.  Explicitly adding index.html to the welcome file list
in web.xml doesn't fix things.

Stepping through DefaultServlet.java in a debugger, what seems to be
happening is Tomcat thinks I want to do a directory listing, but I have
directory listings disabled, so it returns a 404 instead.  I can't figure
out where the welcome file logic gets triggered, so I'm a bit stuck.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Eric
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RE: /, welcome files, and 404

["Caldarale, Charles R" <Ch...@unisys.com>]

> From: kikibobo [mailto:ebowman@boboco.ie] 
> Subject: /, welcome files, and 404
> 
> I've got a spring 2 webmvc based webapp deployed on Tomcat 
> 5.5.20 that is exhibiting some curious behaviour.

I have a vague recollection that you have to configure welcome files
within spring, rather than within Tomcat, since spring essentially maps
everything in a webapp to its own dispatcher.  However, I'm not a spring
developer, so my memory could easily be faulty on that point.

> I can't figure out where the welcome file logic gets
> triggered

The welcome file settings are translated into servlet mapping rules -
there's no explicit code in DefaultServlet for them.  The welcome file
set is constructed in StandardContext.java, and then passed off to
org/apache/tomcat/util/http/mapper/Mapper.java for retention and
processing.

 - Chuck


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