Re: [Mapbuilder-users] [Geoserver-devel] URL resolution without index.html

[Andrea A. <aa...@op...>]

Gertjan van Oosten ha scritto:
> Hi Amy,
> 
> As quoted from Amy Johnson <ajo...@gc...>:
>> I just finished moving a project from the Mapbuilder installation I have 
>> over to GeoServer, figuring I would use the Mapuilder that is installed 
>> in GeoServer. When I typed in the url without the name of the main web 
>> page index.html (localhost:8080/geoserver/<projectname>), it gave me the 
>> tree structure for the directory. This doesn't happen when I do the same 
>> thing in the mapbuilder installation 
>> (localhost:8080/mapbuilder/<projectname>). In the mapbuilder case, it 
>> pulls up the appropriate web page, index.html. I am using Geoserver 
>> 1.5.0-rc2a.
> 
> I quote your message in its entirety, since it is a Geoserver
> configuration issue (hence the Cc: to geoserver-devel).  Geoserver has
> in its WEB-INF/web.xml the following:
> 
>   <welcome-file-list>
>     <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
>   </welcome-file-list>
> 
> which means it does not recognize "index.html" as a directory index,
> only "index.jsp".  So until that is resolved, you have to open:
> 
>   http://localhost:8080/geoserver/<projectname>/index.html

Hum, this is more an issue with the customization of geoserver than
Geoserver as is. That said, I don't see issues with adding index.html
and/or index.htm in the welcome file list.

What worries me a little more, Amy, is that the mapbuilder within
Geoserver is there just as a demo, and hasn't been updated in quite
some months. A more recent version may serve you better, have less
bugs, etc. You can run it within the same web container, as a separate
application. The is some guidance about doing that in the Mapbuilder
web site: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAP/Tomcat+environment

Cheers
Andrea