Have a small problem I need to make sure the URL says http://www.domain.com/directory/index.jsp yet there are the occasions where someone types http://www.domain.com/directory/ doesnt say index.jsp and it throws an error. so I need to bandaid the index.jsp to redirect to itself if it finds that the URL string doesnt have index.jsp in there
Set up your welcome-file-list and add index.jsp to it.
If you meant that you need "index.jsp" to be at the end of your URL, then create another jsp that redirects to index.jsp and add that one to the welcome file list.