Re: Tomcat treating a directory as a file

2007-05-06 Thread Bill Barker
"Leonard Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To all, > > I'm running Tomcat 5.5 on linux and I'm running into a problem with > URLs. I have a directory in my webapp called "help" with an index.html > in that directory. If I goto the URL http://foo.bar/help I get a

Re: Tomcat treating a directory as a file

2007-05-06 Thread Martin Gainty
: "Tomcat Users List" ; "Martin Gainty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 1:16 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat treating a directory as a file Martin, The difference between the two URLs is the trailing "/" character. With Apache httpd I can specify the U

Re: Tomcat treating a directory as a file

2007-05-06 Thread Leonard Smith
Martin, The difference between the two URLs is the trailing "/" character. With Apache httpd I can specify the URL http://foo.bar/help/ and http://foo.bar/help and I will get the index.html under the help directory. With Tomcat the first URL, with the trailing slash, will return the index.html.

Re: Tomcat treating a directory as a file

2007-05-06 Thread Martin Gainty
the URLs look identical??? inside /WEB-INF/web.xml you *should* see a welcome-file-list index.jsp This should be the file displayed when the webapp is loaded Is this not the case??? Thanks Martin This email message and any files transmitted with it contain confidential information intend