[CLK-258] How To Use Click Page As Default Welcome Page in Tomcat

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.0
• Component/s: documentation
• Assignee: Adrian A.
• Reporter: Joel Schmidt
• Created: 03/Nov/07 13:42
• Updated: 03/Mar/10 18:44
• Resolved: 03/Mar/10 18:44

Description

Tomcat (and perhaps other servlet containers (such as JBoss, which embeds Tomcat) does not dispatch URL's in the welcome-file-list to a servlet, even if there is a servlet-mapping which matches the URL. Thus, Click pages don't work properly as a welcome page, unless a little something extra is done. The simplest solution is to use a jsp that directs to the Click page as the welcome-file.

In web.xml:

<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>/welcome-redirect.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

In welcome-redirect.jsp:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>
<%@ page isThreadSafe="true" isErrorPage="false" session="false" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>

<c:redirect url="/welcome.htm" />