Tiles newbie, please help

[Vidya S Sreenivasan]

Hi,
I am new to Tiles.
I am trying to do a Global Forward to a definition declaration.
I have another test app without tiles working fine, in that one, I forward it to index.jsp. But I want to use a global forward in this application, forwarding to a a definition, (so that any user coming in will be taken to the login page).

I have my tiles definition file as follows -

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration//EN"
"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/tiles-config.dtd">
<tiles-definitions>
<definition name=".loginDef" path="/layouts/primaryLayout.jsp">
  <put name="header" value="/nav/headers/header.jsp"/>
  <put name="leftnav" value="/nav/navbars/loginNavBar.jsp"/>
  <put name="spacer" value="/nav/spacer.jsp"/>
  <put name="rightbody" value="/snippets/contents/trans/loginRightBody.jsp"/>
  <put name="footer" value="/nav/footers/footer.jsp"/>
</definition>
<tiles-definitions>

I have my struts config file as follows -

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.1//EN"
                               "http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd">
<struts-config>
<!-- Data Sources -->
<data-sources>
</data-sources>
<!-- Form Beans -->
<form-beans>
</form-beans>
<!-- Global Exceptions -->
<global-exceptions>
</global-exceptions>
<!-- Global Forwards -->
<global-forwards>
<forward name="/Welcome" path=".loginDef">
</forward>
</global-forwards>
<!-- Action Mappings -->
<action-mappings>
 
</action-mappings>
<!-- Message Resources -->
<message-resources parameter="agh.resources.ApplicationResources"/>

<!-- Tiles Resources -->

<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin" >

<!-- Tiles definitions file -->
    <set-property property="definitions-config"
                 value="/WEB-INF/tile-Definitions.xml"/>
                 
    <set-property property="moduleAware" value="true" />
    <set-property property="definitions-parser-validate" value="true" />
    
    </plug-in>
</struts-config>  

I am getting a 404- Error 404: File not found: {0}
I checked the paths, all the files are there. What file is it looking for?
In my test Application without tiles that works fine, this is what the global forward looks like.

 
<global-forwards>
<forward name="/Welcome" path="/index.jsp">
</forward>
<forward name="/requestNew" path="/requestNew.do">
</forward>
<forward name="/changeInfo" path="/changeInfo.do">
</forward>
</global-forwards>
 

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Vidya

[Marc Peabody]

I think what you are tring to do is the equivalent of <welcome-file-list> in web.xml

[Srikanth Shenoy]

You have
<forward name="/Welcome" path=".loginDef">
It should be
<forward name="/Welcome" path="/.loginDef">

[Srikanth Shenoy]

Also, are you using TilesRequestProcessor?

[Marc Peabody]

I believe neither attribute of the forward tag requires a slash. I sure don't use 'em.