3.2.2 CR1 problem with welcome-file

louisthelizard Aug 30, 2008 8:25 PM

I just downloaded and tried 3.2.2 CR1. A new problem appears now where my welcome-file for my application doesn't render properly. Here's an overview:

I have the JSF filter mapped to *.jsf. The welcome-file-list in my web.xml has this:
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>home.jsf</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

The file, home.jsp, has a couple of panels and a menu bar and some standard stuff and is assembled via tiles. It works fine if I reference it directly (ie. http://myurl/home.jsf). But if it is referenced via the welcome-file attribute (ie. http://myurl/) it is a mess. None of the components appear to render properly and I just end up with text, background color and images without page structure. I've used 3.2.0, 3.2.1 and 3.2.2B4 without this problem. So it appears to be new to 3.2.2 CR1.

1. Re: 3.2.2 CR1 problem with welcome-file

ilya_shaikovsky Sep 1, 2008 7:14 AM (in response to louisthelizard)

this is simple JSF question. you should use redirect from welcome file to real JSF page in order to pass request through JSF servlet.

http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=696586&messageID=4046082
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2. Re: 3.2.2 CR1 problem with welcome-file

louisthelizard Sep 2, 2008 6:42 PM (in response to louisthelizard)

Thanks, that helped a lot.

I put a blank home.jsf file there as noted by lamekisser in that thread instead of using a redirect. Strangely it worked fine in previous versions of Richfaces. Even more strangely, this resolved another problem of mine where Yahoo search would not recognize my site homepage as a valid URL.
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