welcome-file-list question

[Asher Tarnopolski]

hey folks,
i have no problem using welcome-file-list to disable the directory listenings while using it in CATALINA_HOME/webapps/myapp.
on tomcat 4.0 there is a CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT directory where you can place jsp files that will run too. (useful for testing purposes). playing with this i've found that when i make a welcome-file-list entry in the web.xml in CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF directory, it doesn't work. the ROOT directry is still avaliable for direct listenings...
do you have any ideas if it's a bug, it's built this way, or there is something i didn't understand ?
tia,

[William Brogden]

In the HOME/conf/web.xml file there is a section for the default servlet - it has this parameter

 <init-param>
            <param-name>listings</param-name>
            <param-value>true</param-value>
        </init-param>
 

Make that value false and you should never see a directory listing.
Bill

[Asher Tarnopolski]

this works, thank's