default page for url directories

[mg123]

Hi,

I'm using Jboss ver 4.2.3 for windows and I'm trying to figure out how to provide a default landing page for url directories:

In my web.xml file I have the following:

<welcome-file-list>

<welcome-file>/redirect.jsp</welcome-file>

</welcome-file-list>

redirect.jsp simply redirects to index.htm (which doesn't physically exist, but is the mapping configured for the servlet) and if I go to my domain

like  my.com it redirects me to my.com/index.htm - which is what I want, but

if type my.com/tools/ then it gives me "page not found" and I want it to redirect to my.com/tools/index.htm

is there a way to configure it in JBoss?

        Thanks Michael

[jfclere]

<welcome-file>/redirect.jsp</welcome-file>

should be:

<welcome-file>redirect.jsp</welcome-file>

[mg123]

that didn't make a difference,  <welcome-file> is only used for the original domain request (my.com), but doesn't seem to matter for other directories like my.com/tools

[jaikiran]

Michael Gaitsg wrote:

but

if type my.com/tools/ then it gives me "page not found" and I want it to redirect to my.com/tools/index.htm

is there a way to configure it in JBoss?

So, I guess, you want to configure a custom error page for error 404. Add a error-page element in your web.xml:

<error-page>
       <error-code>404</error-code>
       <location>/tools/index.htm</location>
  <error-page>

Check the xsd of web.xml for more details.

[mg123]

Hi,

not exactly, I alreaady have error-code configured

it's not just one "tools" dir that I have, I have multiple  tools/, research/, reviews/, etc...

there should be a way to configure it simialr to apache, tomcat where you specify default landing page like .htm, .html, .jsp ....

I just can not figure out how to do it jboss