How can I map the root of servlet and send down a static page

[ken carlino]

Hi,

I have a servlet which map to the root url, like this,

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>TestServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
 

But in the doGet() of my TestServlet, if i do this:

getServletConfig().getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/index.html")
.forward(request, response);
 

it will keep recursively calls back to the doGet() of my TestServlet.

Can you please tell me if there is a solution to my problem? i.e map my servlet to the root and yet I am able to send down static page ?

Thank you.

[William Brogden]

Can you please tell me if there is a solution to my problem?

You are going to have to rethink the nature of your problem. Normally requests like /index.html are handled by the "default" servlet as defined in the base web.xml. You have defined your servlet as a replacement for the default servlet so it gets all "/" requests.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

Bill

[ken carlino]

Thanks. Here is what I want to accomplish:
My webapp context name is "testApp".

If user hits 'http://localhost:8080/testApp/?lang=en', return '/index.html'
If user hits 'http://localhost:8080/testApp/?lang=jp', return '/index_jp.html'
If user hits 'http://localhost:8080/testApp/TestServlet1?lang=jp', invoke TestServlet1 with the query string.

Thank for any idea.

[gopinathang nathan]

can you please post web.xml file? do you have any welcome page setting?

[Scott Johnson]

You don't mention which web server you are using (if any), but you could have the web server rewrite the url:

/testApp/?lang=jp

would become:

/testApp/index_jp.html
[ November 11, 2006: Message edited by: Scott Johnson ]

[ken carlino]

Thanks. I am using Tomcat and I try to use the UrlRewriteFilter http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/ project

I add this rule:
<rule>
<from>/?lang=jp</from>
<to type="redirect">%{context-path}/index_jp.html</to>
</rule>

Butt this does not work, I will be redirect to whenever I hit
'http://localhost:8080/testWebApp/?lang=jp'
http://127.0.0.1:8080/?/testWebApp/rewrite-status

[Scott Johnson]

I've never used that library before, but after glancing at the doc, maybe this would work:

    
    <urlrewrite>
 
        <rule match-type="regex">
           <from>^/\?lang=([a-z]{2})$</from>
           <to type="redirect">/index_$1.html</to>
        </rule>
 
    </urlrewrite>