Yeah, I mean the default page is what you specify it to be right? Ok, here's what I mean:
I was using BCentral.com and they have a tool for scoring your website ranking on the major search engines. I typed in my URL (www.myurl.com) and bCentral came back with a message to the effect of "Your default page is a redirect page which redirects to www.myurl.com/index.jsp. Redirects confuse search engines and can hurt your rankings." I don't know a great deal about search engines but this was a concern upon reading it. That said, I looked through the goole listings for a common topic and saw that most sites listed the root url without the default page name. With a lot of web servers such as MS IIS, this is not a problem and so I presume it to not be a problem with a lot of other servers as well. So I then presume there must be a way to get Tomcat to behave in line with this preferred expectation. Any thoughts? Thanks! Neal -----Original Message----- From: Carsten Ziegert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 2:40 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: tomcat redirects to default page Neal, I suppose index.jsp *is* the default page. Welcome pages are defined in conf/web.xml: <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file> <welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file> <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> But I dont' know if there is a priority specification. You could either rename the file index.jsp or delete the line from web.xml, but you'll keep in mind that web.xml is valid for *all* web applications. Carsten Am Montag, 18.11.02, um 11:17 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb neal: > Tomcat autmatically redirects from the root url to the defualt page of > the > URL: > > www.myurl.com -> www.myurl.com/index.jsp > > Does anyone know how to prevent it from doing this? I would rather > that it > show the default page but not redirect the url to > www.myurl.com/index.jsp. > > Is this possible? > > Thanks. > Neal > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- Carsten Ziegert Hannover Medical School, Dept. of Hematology and Oncology Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625 Hannover University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Information Sciences Ricklinger Stadtweg 120, 30459 Hannover http://summit-bmt.fh-hannover.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
