URLRewriteFilter for ROOT?

[Michael Cropper]

Hi, I have been looking around on how to use URLRewriteFilter for how I can map "http://localhost/" to a servlet. Either I am missing something blindingly obvious, or this isn't as simple as I was hoping.

Does anyone know how to map the ROOT of a web application to a servlet?

I tried doing this in web.xml, although when using "/" as the url-pattern this throws everything through the servlet including images and all.

Thanks
Michael

[Bear Bibeault]

Make the web app the ROOT application and set up a "welcome file" to the servlet mapping.

[Michael Cropper]

Do you mean setting up something like this?

    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>myservlet.do</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>


    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>mypackage.MyServlet</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>myservlet.do</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

Michael

[Michael Cropper]

This has solved the issue.

I will post the other question in a new topic to stop things getting confusing.

Thanks for the help

Michael