Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
From: laredotornado [mailto:laredotorn...@gmail.com]
Subject: RE: Servlet mapping question -- way to include everythign
EXCEPT a directory?
I like your idea about specifying the DefaultServlet,
but what do you mean by the "DefaultServlet" ?
Tomcat's built-in servlet that handles all static content. It's defined in the
global conf/web.xml, and thus included in all deployed webapps:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet</servlet-class>
...snip...
</servlet>
It has this mapping:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
so it gets to process anything that doesn't match any other mapping. Just add
this to your webapp's WEB-INF/web.xml:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/play/sports/includes/*</url-pattern>
<servlet-mapping>
- Chuck
If it isn't yet the case, this might be worth a short Wiki article, including the short
explanation above. While it is true that this can be derived from the page at
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/default-servlet.html
I still believe it is not so evident for a beginner.
That page gives a complicated example to do with listings, but the OP's question is in
fact a fairly basic and recurrent one.
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