John Hicks wrote:
Stephen Carville wrote:During a migration from Apache 1 to Apache 2 I found a problem with DirectoryIndex in VirtualHostsI have several Virtual Hosts defined with a DirectoryIndex: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.nationwide-totalflood.com DocumentRoot /var/jakarta/dpsi-corp/ROOT DirectoryIndex HomePage.jsp index.html JkMount /*.jsp worker1 JkMount /servlet/* worker1 </VirtualHost> Problem is if I use the above DirectoyIndex, Apache always displays index.html. If I remove index.html then HomePage.jsp is passed to tomcat normally. I can work around this but it is frustrating that Apache 2 should behave so differently from Apache 1.The DirectoryIndex directive merely tells Apache what file to serve if no file is requested (i.e. if a directory only is specified). In other words, this file is served in place of a directory listing (or index).
Both files are present but for some reason, Apache 2 will not display HomePage.jsp if index.html is present. Apache 1 respected the order. The problem could be in mod_jk or tomcat since it only happens with jsp pages. However, one of the developers asked on the tomcat list and was told it was an Apache issue.
If you don't want to display index.html, the simplest solution would be to delete that file from the directory. (If you do want to display it, but not as a directory index, why not rename it to something other than "index"?)
I'd like to but index.html is one of the error 404 pages and the developers claim they don't have time to go back thru the old code and fix all the references to it. I can sympathize because when I tried to get rid of HomePage.jsp (it just serves a static page depending on the domain requested) and replace it with a more sensible VirtualHosts and only calling tomcat when a jsp is actually needed, hundreds of pages broke. The original developer would only write in Java.
Franky the whole thing need to be torn down and rewritten but that is not going to happen so I have to find work arounds. Is hoping this one had an easy fix.
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