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I want to configure my web.xml for Google App Engine, but my configuration doesn't work. I want to change the default index.html with WebApp/index.html.
Here is the web.xml:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>App</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>bg.app.AppServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>App</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/WebApp/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>WebApp/index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
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The deployment descriptor is a file named web. xml . It resides in the app's WAR under the WEB-INF/ directory.
jsp . If you want more control over how the JSP is mapped to a URL, you can specify the mapping explicitly by declaring it with a <servlet> element in the deployment descriptor. Instead of a <servlet-class> element, you specify a <jsp-file> element with the path to the JSP file from the WAR root.
If no welcome file is specified, the Application Server will use a file named index. XXX , where XXX can be html or jsp, as the default welcome file.
The tag <welcome-file-list> is used for specifying the files that needs to be invoked by server by default, if you do not specify a file name while loading the project on browser. Based on the welcome file list, server would look for the myhome.
The "welcome file" represents the physical file which needs to be served when a folder is requested by URL. E.g. / or /WebApp/ or WebApp/foo/. It does not represent the "homepage file" or so as many starters seem to think. It does not make sense to let the welcome file point to a subfolder. It would fail when another subfolder is been requested.
Just stick to index.html as welcome file, put the desired homepage file in /WebApp/ folder and create another index.html file in root folder / with the following content:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Dummy homepage</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=WebApp" />
</head>
</html>
This will redirect to /WebApp/ (searchbots will treat it as 301) which in turn should serve the desired homepage file.
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