To map the URL root to certain welcome file, we normally just specify the welcome-file in the web.xml like this
What this means is, if in a directory without specifying any file name, the web application will first look for index.html and then index.jsp.
Now add struts framework into the picture, default struts extension for 1 and 2 is *.do and *.action respectively.
There are 2 ways of making our application pointing to the special struts action.
#1: Meta redirect
You can keep index.html or index.jsp as welcome-file and what you need to do is put a meta refresh in these index files
Struts 1
Struts 2
But the downside of this is - whatever action name you use would appear on the browser. (i.e. www.mydomain.com always appear as www.mydomain.com/homepage.action even user types in www.mydomain.com)
#2: Change welcome-file and add dummy place holder file
The second way (or better way) of fixing the struts action mapping to the URL root is to update the welcome-file list.
Struts 1
Struts 2
And then in the WebContent Root, add a dummy file (e.g. in Struts 2 you need an empty file homepage.action)*This step is important, without the empty dummy file, it won't work, at least in Tomcat*
Now when you hit http://www.mydomain.com your application will hit the homepage.action directly without adding the homepage.action after your url.
index.html index.jsp
What this means is, if in a directory without specifying any file name, the web application will first look for index.html and then index.jsp.
Now add struts framework into the picture, default struts extension for 1 and 2 is *.do and *.action respectively.
There are 2 ways of making our application pointing to the special struts action.
#1: Meta redirect
You can keep index.html or index.jsp as welcome-file and what you need to do is put a meta refresh in these index files
Struts 1
meta equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=/homepage.do"
Struts 2
meta equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=/homepage.action"
But the downside of this is - whatever action name you use would appear on the browser. (i.e. www.mydomain.com always appear as www.mydomain.com/homepage.action even user types in www.mydomain.com)
#2: Change welcome-file and add dummy place holder file
The second way (or better way) of fixing the struts action mapping to the URL root is to update the welcome-file list.
Struts 1
homepage.do
Struts 2
homepage.action
And then in the WebContent Root, add a dummy file (e.g. in Struts 2 you need an empty file homepage.action)*This step is important, without the empty dummy file, it won't work, at least in Tomcat*
Now when you hit http://www.mydomain.com your application will hit the homepage.action directly without adding the homepage.action after your url.
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