Hi,
As has been stated many times in this email group,
tomcat 3.2 does *not* read the file
$TOMCAT_HOME/conf/web.xml any more.
I bet you defined your welcome-file there - you should
define the welcome-file entry in WEB-INF/web.xml
instead.
Note that the WEB-INF/web.xml file has always been
the *right* place for this definition (though using either
file would have worked in the past). It makes more sense
to define the welcome-file entries at a webapp-specific
level rather than at a tomcat-wide level, as separate
webapps are likely to want different settings.
The tomcat 3.2 developers made a minor error (in my
opinion) by forgetting to take the old no-longer-used
global web.xml file out of the latest releases.
Tomcat developers - can you get rid of the global
web.xml file from the distribution, to avoid this confusion???
Or rename it to something else (like web.builtin.xml ;-)
Cheers,
Simon
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> Subject: Tomcat 3.2.1 not recognizing index document
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> Recently I upgraded to Tomcat 3.2.1 from 3.1 and everything seems to have
> gone well except for one thing:
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> If i try to go to my URL at http://www.somesite.com/ it cannot handle it,
> and maps to http://http/index.jsp
>
> However, if i type in http://www.somesite.com/index.jsp it loads
> perfectly.
>
> I've messed with the httpd.conf files with apache, and have determined
> that
> somehow, whenever you don't type in a filename, it has problems. My
> previous
> copy of Tomcat 3.1 was working great, so it has to be with the handoff
> from
> apache to tomcat. I've checked, and Apache handles regular .html
> DirectoryIndex files perfectly!
>
> This one is really bugging me, please help!
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