How to set Servlet as welcome-file...or to load instead of index.jsp

[Ricky Jay]

I've set up my servlet "LoadIndex" to get my data from my database put them as objects into an arraylist and sending those to my index.jsp.

I can't figure out how to set my servlet to load/kick off when you browse to my site.

REF: https://coderanch.com/t/366261/Servlets/java/Calling-servlet-page-load

Thank you.

[Bear Bibeault]

Set it up as the welcome file in the deployment descriptor.

[Ricky Jay]

Am I doing this correctly? I'm getting a 404 error when i try to run the project with netbeans.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
<!-- servlet defs -->
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>LoadIndexServlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>business.LoadIndexServlet</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <!-- servlet mappings -->
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>LoadIndexServlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/LoadIndex</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>
            30
        </session-timeout>
    </session-config>
    

    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>/LoadIndex</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>  

[Mark E Hansen]

I can't see anything wrong with your web.xml file. Are you getting any errors when you deploy the application? Have a look through the log file of your application server.

What happens if you browse to the servlet, rather than just the root of the web application?
Can you share the URL you're using to access the application?

[Ricky Jay]

<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>/LoadIndex</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>


removed the "/"

<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>LoadIndex</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

works.