Hmmm, it jsut sits there and says "Error 404, file not found /foo.ext.
I am running Tomcat stand alone. I guess I'll keep looking around for possible
errors, but this should be
a simple configuration issue.
Does tomcat check to see if the file exists first, before shunting to the
servlet?
** Is thre a way to force Tomcat to always hit a given servlet, no matter what
the URL? **
Thanks;
-Chris
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> Christopher Hull wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to get a servlet to fire off for a given file type. This
> > doesn't seem to work, but the setup looks pretty straightforward.
> >
> > In my web.xml I set up a servlet.
> >
> > <servlet>
> > <servlet-class>com.foo.aServlet</class>
> > <servlet-name>handleFile</name>
> > </serv.et>
> >
> > <servlet-mapping>
> > <servlet-name>handleFile</s-name>
> > <url-pattern>*.txt</url-pattern>
> > <servlet-mapping>
> >
> > When I ask for the servlet directlly by name it comes up, yet when I ask
> > for a .txt file (which exists) the servlet isn't found.
> >
> > Does this feature currently work in Tomcat?
> >
>
> Yes, the feature works -- that is how JSP pages get mapped to the JSP servlet,
> for example.
>
> One thing to note, though. If you are using Tomcat behind a web server,
> instead of stand-alone, you will need to add an additional configuration
> command for the web server so that it knows about this mapping also. For
> Apache, for example, you'd need to add:
>
> AddHandler jserv-servlet .txt
>
> to make Apache aware of your desires.
>
> >
> > Thanks;
> > -Chris
>
> Craig McClanahan
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