I Can not access my welcome file, frame.jsp?

[Sean Hetfield]

Hi,

I have developed a struts based application, using JDeveloper.
I have made the war file and deplyed it to my tomcat (4.1.31) and it is working just fine. But when I deploy it to another tomcat (4.1.x), I can not access my welcome file which is pages/frame.jsp.

Thanks for any comment

[Ken Loh]

Have you tried putting the file directly in WEB-INF instead of the subfolder page ?

Also are you saying the file could not be reached from your index.jsp file ? If yes, alternatively you may try putting this in index.jsp:

<!-- Copyright (c) 2002 by ObjectLearn. All Rights Reserved. -->
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld" prefix="logic" %>
<logic:redirect forward="welcome"/>

"welcome" is a global forward that you insert into your struts-config.xml file. It forwards to /page/frame.jsp

        <forward name="welcome" path="/page/frame.jsp" />

Originally posted by Sean Mohseni:
Hi,

I have developed a struts based application, using JDeveloper.
I have made the war file and deplyed it to my tomcat (4.1.31) and it is working just fine. But when I deploy it to another tomcat (4.1.x), I can not access my welcome file which is pages/frame.jsp.

Thanks for any comment

[Sean Hetfield]

Basically I do not have any index.jsp file. The first file in my application to be accessed is /pages/frame.jsp.
I do have:
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>pages/frame.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
in web.xml file under WEB-INF and

<global-forwards>
<forward name="frame" path="/pages/frame.jsp"/>
</global-forwards>
in struts-config.xml and I wonder why it is behaving differently under two different tomcat (Second tomcat is the university tomcat that have to present my project on) ?

[Marc Peabody]

I was always under the impression that a welcome page could not be placed in the WEB-INF folder because it is a page that the user has to access directly. I could be wrong, but try taking it out of your WEB-INF folder anyway and see what happens.

[Sean Hetfield]

My welcome page is not in my WEB-INF, but it is under pages folder, and pages folder and WEB-INF are both under my main root which itself is under webapps

[Marc Peabody]

Sorry, my misinterpretation.

Now that I think of it, I've never seen a welcome page NOT located in the root directory before. There may be a good reason for that.

[Sean Hetfield]

Yes, my welcome file is not in root, but first of all this program working on one tomcat and it does not work on the other.
Also in web.xml and struts-config.xml, I have defined the path for my welcome page as well.

[Marc Peabody]

Originally posted by Sean Mohseni:
Yes, my welcome file is not in root, but first of all this program working on one tomcat and it does not work on the other.
Also in web.xml and struts-config.xml, I have defined the path for my welcome page as well.

Your struts-config isn't what sets up the welcome page by the way.

Could you TRY placing your welcome page in the root directory to see if it will work in both environments?

[Ken Loh]

Oops, what was I thinking. Marc is right. I should have said "root" rather than "WEB-INF".

As the user needs to access the page, it must be at the root folder as far as I can understand as I've never place files like it elsewhere before.

Originally posted by Ken Loh:
Have you tried putting the file directly in WEB-INF instead of the subfolder page ?

[Ganesh Gowtham]

Originally posted by Marc Peabody:
I was always under the impression that a welcome page could not be placed in the WEB-INF folder because it is a page that the user has to access directly. I could be wrong, but try taking it out of your WEB-INF folder anyway and see what happens.

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

as soon as web app is the file what ever may be case static or dynam,ic gets loaded automatically nio need to user to go to that page if u congired the code in web.xml i had tested in weblogic 8.1 and behaviour is same among the other servers too

[Ganesh Gowtham]

Originally posted by Ken Loh:
Oops, what was I thinking. Marc is right. I should have said "root" rather than "WEB-INF".

As the user needs to access the page, it must be at the root folder as far as I can understand as I've never place files like it elsewhere before.

as u said if u places all the files in ur root directory if ur prjts extends in some 900 pages or more u will be in CHAOS

so its really good convention to use the dif folder and be aware of giving links ....
Coz it may give u trouble some times

[Ken Loh]

The original posting wasn't about organization. It purely was about accessibility. Therefore, the answers were in line according to that to keep the simplicity.

Hence, I'd like to reiterate: put only those files that you want people to access directly at your module's "root". For those that you want to allow access only through a framework like Struts, put it in a subfolder.

In many case, the root contains only a few *.jsp files. Not uncommon that you find only index.jsp where users can logon. After a successful logon, the struts framework forwards to pages normally under some subfolders for reasons including: denying direct access (like typing the URL of a jsp at a browser); and organization that Mr Ganamukala rightfully stresses.

Originally posted by Gowtham Ganamukala:


as u said if u places all the files in ur root directory if ur prjts extends in some 900 pages or more u will be in CHAOS

so its really good convention to use the dif folder and be aware of giving links ....
Coz it may give u trouble some times