Martin,
The difference between the two URLs is the trailing "/" character.
With Apache httpd I can specify the URL http://foo.bar/help/ and
http://foo.bar/help and I will get the index.html under the help
directory.
With Tomcat the first URL, with the trailing slash, will return the
index.html. The second URL, without the trailing "/" seems to be
treated as a filename, and returns a 404.
So what I'm trying to get Tomcat to is return the index.html for both
URLs, similar to what Apache httpd is doing.
Thanks
Len
On 5/6/07, Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
the URLs look identical???
inside /WEB-INF/web.xml you *should* see a welcome-file-list
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
This should be the file displayed when the webapp is loaded
Is this not the case???
Thanks
Martin
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From: "Leonard Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 12:03 PM
Subject: Tomcat treating a directory as a file
> To all,
>
> I'm running Tomcat 5.5 on linux and I'm running into a problem with
> URLs. I have a directory in my webapp called "help" with an index.html
> in that directory. If I goto the URL http://foo.bar/help I get a 404
> and the index.html is not loaded. However if I goto the URL
> http://foo.bar/help/ things work fine.
>
> This is different than what i've seen with Apache httpd and I'm
> assuming it is just a config change, but I haven't been able to track
> it down yet.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks,
> Len
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