Thankyou, good to know, i'll see which aproach is easyer for me. On Monday 16 December 2002 21:30, Turner, John wrote: > This has come up many times before. There is no easy solution. > Apparently, Apache doesn't do the DirectoryIndex until after it checks to > see if the URL should be passed to Tomcat. Since the actual URL has no > "*.jsp" on it at that time, it doesn't go to Tomcat. > > There have been various alternatives suggested on the list in the past: > > 1) setup a index.html file to do a META refresh of 0 to URL/index.jsp > 2) use mod_rewrite to intercept URLs that don't have a file on them, > rewriting them to /index.jsp > 3) send all requests to Tomcat, and use the web.xml welcome file list to > have index.jsp come up first (this would make Apache pretty useless) > > There are probably other workarounds. > > John > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexander Wallace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 8:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: how do i make apache auto load index.jsp > > When using apache + tomcat, and calling my web app context, with no page > being > requested, i get 404 error.... If i call tomcat directly (using port 8080) > tomcat loads index.jsp fine. > > How can i make apache also load the index.jsp ? > > I thought that by adding the index.jsp to the httpd.conf DirectoryIndex > directive it would do it, but it doesn't... > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.419 / Virus Database: 235 - Release Date: 11/13/2002 > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.419 / Virus Database: 235 - Release Date: 11/13/2002 > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional > commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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