"Joseph S" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I have this in the web.xml of my application:
>
> <servlet-mapping>
> <servlet-name>
> MyServlet
> </servlet-name>
> <url-pattern>
> /
> </url-pattern>
> </servlet-mapping>
>
>
> Which works fine, except for requests without pathinfo (i.e.
> http://servername/ ). That still seems to be handled by the default
> tomcat servlet, which is serving up the index.jsp that I no longer want to
> use. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
>
This is a feature. Tomcat needs to process the <welcome-file-list> before
doing Servlet mapping so that the correct servlet is invoked for the welcome
file.
> Incidentally I discovered you can't <welcome-file-list> by having an empty
> element, you have to have at least one <welcome-file> in there or the
> default servlet will use the one in $CATALINA_BASE/conf/web.xml . Bug or
> feature?
I'd say an enhancement rather than a bug, since you can always do (as you
have discovered):
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.doesnotexist</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
For the benifit of the archives, this of course assumes that you have set
replaceWelcomeFiles="true" in the <Context ... /> element.
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