I want to configure my web.xml for Google App Engine, but my configuration doesn't work. I want to change the default index.html
with WebApp/index.html
.
Here is the web.xml
:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>App</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>bg.app.AppServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>App</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/WebApp/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>WebApp/index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
The "welcome file" represents the physical file which needs to be served when a folder is requested by URL. E.g. /
or /WebApp/
or WebApp/foo/
. It does not represent the "homepage file" or so as many starters seem to think. It does not make sense to let the welcome file point to a subfolder. It would fail when another subfolder is been requested.
Just stick to index.html
as welcome file, put the desired homepage file in /WebApp/
folder and create another index.html
file in root folder /
with the following content:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Dummy homepage</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=WebApp" />
</head>
</html>
This will redirect to /WebApp/
(searchbots will treat it as 301) which in turn should serve the desired homepage file.
See also:
- How to configure welcome file list in web.xml
- Set default home page via <welcome-file> in JSF project
- Change default homepage in root path to servlet with doGet