how to set html page as a welcome page in netbeans

whn i tried to set it it shows 404 error but with the index.jsp page it works properly

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In web application DD (web.xml), it's defined. Defaulty, in Netbeans, index.jsp is the welcome file. If you need to put your own file, change it.

thanks for your reply

\web\WEB-INF\form.html when my file is in this directory it shows 404 error
why is it showing this error sir i wanna know that???

\web\form.html here it works properly.

whats the major difference??? sir do tell me.

You want to access form.html as the welcome page? Whatever, if you put your resource(here, form.html) in the WEB-INF directory, then it can't be accessed directly.

yes i want form.html as my welcome page.

i cant access form.html in WEB-INF file directly.

so how can i able to access it if i want to use the form.html in WEB-INF and that form should be the welcome page.

Take that file out of WEB-INF folder. And in you web.xml, defined it as,

a jsp/html under WEB-INF, cannot access directly by a client. so you need to forward to this page in serverside.

1. place a file(index.jsp) under root directory. configure this page as welcome-file.

2. then forward to a file(home.jsp) , from index.jsp

Note: welcome file list can be configure in web.xml using <welcome-file-list> tag

hope this helps

Thanks Abimaran Kugathasan
now its not showing 404 error it displays the page in browser

Thanks Seetharaman Venkatasamy
Offcourse sir this is helpful to me

You are Welcome, no need of Sir here please!