Bug 54955 - Mapping to application context root returns 404 after reload
Summary: Mapping to application context root returns 404 after reload
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Tomcat 7
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Catalina (show other bugs)
Version: 7.0.40
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List
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Reported: 2013-05-13 03:50 UTC by Zheng Yang
Modified: 2013-05-21 03:55 UTC (History)
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A minimum war file to reproduce the bug with sources attached (2.17 KB, application/octet-stream)
2013-05-13 03:50 UTC, Zheng Yang
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Description Zheng Yang 2013-05-13 03:50:12 UTC
Created attachment 30273 [details]
A minimum war file to reproduce the bug with sources attached

URL mapping specified as ""(empty string) maps a servlet to the context root according to servlet specification. This feature is working when an application is deployed, but broken when it's reloaded. A reload will result in 404 error. (Other url mappings are OK, only "")

Steps to reproduce:

1) Create a servlet with URL mapping as empty string, you can either use @WebServlet("") annotation or <url-pattern></url-pattern> in web.xml

2) If you deploy it in Tomcat 7.0.40, it will work. (e.g. http://localhost:8080/myapp/) 

3) But if you reload the app (say using the manager app), http://localhost:8080/myapp/ will give 404 error. Servlet in step 1 is never called this time.

Actual Results: 404 Not Found

Expected Results: Show the context root page.

Env: Tomcat 7.0.40, Java 7, Windows 8
Comment 1 Violeta Georgieva 2013-05-21 03:55:09 UTC
Thanks for the report.
Fixed in trunk and 7.0.x and will be included in 7.0.41 onwards.