Peter, You wrote your tiles:insert tag with 'ignore="true" so just put a dummy value in for your tiles:insert tag and if a file by that name doesn't exist, it won't show anything.
Regarding your directory listing, I've never seen that but I've also never tried putting a blank entry ("") as a value. You might try updating your tiles:put from your definition to have 'type="String"' to try to force it to put the value in as a String, which should result in an empty string (from what you have listed. (shrug - just a theory) Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 6:59 AM To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: Tiles showing directory listing inside WEB-INF Hi all! I got confused when I experimented with tiles to learn how it works. Here is what I have done. I have created a DeafultLayout.jsp: <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld" prefix="tiles" %> <html:html> <head> <title>TilesTest</title> <html:base/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/TilesTest/stylesheets/TT-styles.css"> </head> <body> <tiles:insert attribute="header" flush="true" ignore="true" /> <tiles:insert attribute="navigation" flush="true" ignore="true" /> <tiles:insert attribute="footer" flush="true" ignore="true" /> </body> </html:html> So there are three regions, which I populate in a tiles definition like this: <definition name="tiledef.default" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/layouts/DefaultLayout.jsp"> <put name="header" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/common/header.jsp" /> <put name="navigation" value="" /> <put name="footer" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/common/footer.jsp" /> </definition> When I use this definition in an jsp like this: <tiles:insert definition="tiledef.deafult" /> my web-app shows the directory listing of WEB-INF/jsp/layout (besides the header and footer). So the line <put name="navigation" value="" /> seems to be the problem. Is it ok for my web-app to show directory listings inside my WEB-INF folder? How can I prevent Tomcat to do so, if i forget to put a tile into my layout? More basically: Why does Tomcat list my directory when a tile is put with value=""? Or is it a problem of tiles? There is another problem, too. My stylesheets are ignored. If I use navigation.jsp for the navigation tile, everything is fine. Why aren't the stylesheets used in case of value=""? You see, I only scratch the surface of tiles and need some more in-depth covering of it. Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]