Welcome file list not being picked in Websphere

Asked Sep 10 '13 at 13:48

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I have a peculiar problem. We have welcome file list in web.xml. When we deploy the war on tomcat / JBoss and hit our URL without the html file in welcome file list, the app is redirected properly. However the same redirection is not happening in Websphere. Do we have to do anything else to make it work on Websphere?

Snippet of web.xml -

<filter>
<filter-name>AppFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>com.proj.filters.AppFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>AppFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/index.html</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

What we expect is when we hit application url, it should be appeded with welcome file and my filter should be invoked. This is working on JBoss, but not on Websphere.

edited Jan 30 '14 at 14:43

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asked Sep 10 '13 at 13:48

Padmanabh Kini

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in your index.html loading? and where is your index.html? – vishnu viswanath Sep 10 '13 at 13:51
index.html is not loaded. It is in the Application root. – Padmanabh Kini Sep 10 '13 at 14:10
try this : in Servers -> Server -> Web Container Settings -> Web Container -> Custom Properties, set com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.invokefilterscompatibility=true – vishnu viswanath Sep 10 '13 at 14:21
if it doesnt't work, try this : com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.mapFiltersToAsterisk=true com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.removetrailingservletpathslash=true com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.invokeFiltersCompatibility=true – vishnu viswanath Sep 10 '13 at 14:23
Hi, sorry should have mentioned earlier, we have done the above settings as well. – Padmanabh Kini Sep 10 '13 at 14:38
ok.. try adding REQUEST FORWARD in the – vishnu viswanath Sep 10 '13 at 15:33
or if you just want a servlet to be called , you can follow this link http://wiki.metawerx.net/wiki/HowToUseAServletAsYourMainWebPage – vishnu viswanath Sep 10 '13 at 15:36
Ok so the problem was welome file was picked up, but the url was not geting changed. I made changes to display full url in browser and the filter is now invoked. – Padmanabh Kini Sep 13 '13 at 04:59
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.invokefilterscompatibility=true is not needed/used as of WebSphere v8. – ebullient Jan 30 '14 at 14:43

Welcome file list not being picked in Websphere

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