Thank you very much Konstantin! That worked perfectly. =) Warm regards, Jordan Michaels
----- Original Message ----- From: "Konstantin Kolinko" <knst.koli...@gmail.com> To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 2:24:02 AM Subject: Re: Check if a file exists before passing to a servlet in TC7 2012/7/27 Jordan Michaels <jor...@viviotech.net>: > I'm trying to have Tomcat serve up a directory listing if a file listed in > the <welcome-file-list> doesn't exist. I have custom files there that will > get passed to my servlet if the normal HTML or JSP files don't exist. > > In Tomcat 6, this seemed to work nicely. I have my files listed in the > welcome file list and if they didn't exist, I'd get a directory listing like > I wanted. But, in Tomcat 7, as soon as Tomcat sees that I have a custom file > in my <welcome-file-list>, it simply hands off the request to my servlet and > I get a 404 from my servlet instead of a directory listing from Tomcat's > "default" servlet. > > Is it possible to have Tomcat 7 check for the existence of a file before it > passes a request to my servlet? That way I could get the directory listing > from the default servlet? > > I'm just using the built-in Coyote Web server on both TC6 and TC7, so no > external web server should be complicating things. > > Any direction on this would be greatly appreciated. > See "resourceOnlyServlets" attribute on <Context>. I think it will help here. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
