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Sasha Goldshtein
Sasha Goldshtein

Reputation: 3519

URL mapping of servlets and JSP files with Tomcat and Eclipse

I have a web application project in Eclipse that is configured to deploy to a local Tomcat server. Let's call the web application Blah. Here are two questions -- I must be missing something very simple, but I can't find an easy way to change these settings within Eclipse without fiddling with the Tomcat configuration files.

1. When the application is deployed, the URL I can use to browse to some servlet/JSP is localhost:port/Blah/servlet. I would like to get rid of the Blah prefix.

2. I would like to set up redirects for some JSP files to "hide" the .jsp extension. For example, I'd like localhost:port/login to be served by localhost:port/login.jsp, preferably without the browser seeing a 30x redirect status code.

3. I would like to set the default URL, i.e. localhost:port/, to redirect to a particular JSP or servlet (again, preferably without issuing a redirect status code).

Any help, including links to relevant resources, would be greatly appreciated. Please note that I am looking for a way to configure these things from within Eclipse, if possible. (If not possible, I would like to do the minimal amount of changes to the scary Tomcat XML files.)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5164

Answers (1)

JB Nizet
JB Nizet

Reputation: 692131

  1. This means that you need to deploy your application as the root application. It's easily done by naming your war file ROOT.WAR (or your exploded war directory ROOT), or by defining a context for your web app with an empty string as the path attribute.

  2. Then you don't want a redirect, but a forward. Or you simply want to map the JSP (which IS a servlet) to a given path. Define a servlet and a servlet mapping in the web.xml file, as you would for a servlet class, but use <jsp-file> instead of <servlet-class>.

  3. This is done using the <welcome-file-list> element in the web.xml.

Upvotes: 4

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