"Leonard Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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
: "Tomcat Users List" ; "Martin Gainty"
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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
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.
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
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