Thanks Craig. Maybe it's the lack of caffeine, but I can't make this work. I've got a <welcome-file-list> element in web.xml, and I've added welcome.do as a file in that list, but Tomcat (5.0.27) isn't attempting to load that URL, as far as I can tell.
I did add an "index.jsp" element to the welcome-file-list, and dropped an index.jsp file into the directory, and that works, so I at least have a workaround hack that I can use. But I'd like to get a pure mapping solution to this, so that I don't have to keep an index.jsp in each module that I build. I thought that maybe Tomcat was getting confused between trying to find file named welcome.do vs. just having a mapping, so I also tested by remapping my signin module to a different URL. Here's what I did: 1) Duplicate the signup module's <init-param> element in the Struts ActionServlet config, mapping it to config/test. 2) Redeploy the webapp and hit localhost/webapp/test, and got a 404 from Tomcat. 3) Hit localhost/webapp/test/welcome.do, and got the first screen of my signup module. Under this setup, there's no directory on the server that matches the /webapp/test URL, so it's all a soft mapping. And it behaves exactly the same as when I have it pointed at my /signup module, which does have a matching directory. FWIW, I also tried this with directory listings enabled and disabled, with no change in outcome. Also FWIW, this is Tomcat 5.0.27 with a 2.4 DTD for web.xml. Can you see anything blatently wrong that I'm doing? Thanks, Kev On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:51:05 -0700, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All you need to do is add a "welcome file" element in web.xml that > points the user at your login action: > > <welcome-file> > <welcome-file>welcome.do</welcome-file> > </welcome-file> > > This won't work in Tomcat 4, but does work in Tomcat 5. (NOTE: if > you're using Servlet 2.3 or earlier format for your web.xml file, the > order of the elements is defined in the DTD; for Servlet 2.4 or later > you can have them in any order). > > Craig > > > <original post snipped> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
