welcome page not comming

[devarapalem kumar]

hi all

i am trying to add a welcome page to my sample application and it is not working below is my web.xml code
when i try to enter http://localhost:8080/Balance/ ----it is trowing 404 exception(list of jsp files are also not comming )
when i try using http://localhost:8080/balance/LoginServlet ---then it is working and going to that servlet as expected.

can some one help me over this as i am struck up

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
  <display-name>Balance</display-name>
<servlet>
	<servlet-name>LoginServlet</servlet-name>
	<servlet-class>org.balance.LoginServlet</servlet-class>
	
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
	<servlet-name>LoginServlet</servlet-name>
	<url-pattern>/LoginServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>Login.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list>
  
</web-app>

[Bear Bibeault]

You want the welcome file to be a JSP? Should it not be going to the page controller for that page rather than the JSP itself?

[Koen Aerts]

In "http://localhost:8080/Balance/" you use uppercase "B" in "Balance", but you don't in the next URL: "http://localhost:8080/balance/LoginServlet"

I assume you want to add "<welcome-file>LoginServlet</welcome-file>" in the welcome-file-list?

[devarapalem kumar]

Thanks for adding that to my code i am new to java ranch so i couldnt add that.

"You want the welcome file to be a JSP? Should it not be going to the page controller for that page rather than the JSP itself? "

yeah i want it to be a jsp file.

i have place my <welcome-file> tag inside <welcome-file-list>
it is trowing 404 error for http://localhost:8080/Balance and for http://localhost:8080/Balance/LoginServlet it is working fine.

[Bear Bibeault]

Hmmm, going to a JSP file is not a good pattern to follow, but I suspect (assuming that the JSP is in the context root) that you need a leading slash.

And watch your casing. I'd advise to name all JSP files and url patterns with all lowercase as is the convention.

[devarapalem kumar]

The jsp is not in the servletcontext path so it was not comming.
i was just trying to learn servlets so i have kept jsp as a welcome page.


Thanks everyone for replying.