JSP as Home Page on iPlanet

Question

Is it possible to configure the iPlanet web server 4.1 to serve a JSP as its
          home page from WL when a user hits a URL like http://www.mywebsite.com? The
          proxy by jsp extension and directory work fine when the URL is anything
          other than the default web site. I'd rather avoid doing a redirection in an
          HTML page to a JSP page. In my testing, if the home page in iPlanet is set
          to a JSP page, the proxy rules don't go into effect properly and for some
          reason iPlanet asks WL to serve it's default page.
          Any ideas on how I can get this to work?
          -Brian Cunningham
          

Answer 1

Brian,
          You can easily get WLS to serve index.jsp as the default home page. I have
          included the section of the docs from the "Serving dynamic pages by default"
          section from http://www.weblogic.com/docs51/admindocs/http.html#default
          You may configure the WebLogic Server to serve dynamic default files, delivered
          by the JSPServlet, the PageCompileServlet, or your own custom servlet. This
          property instructs the WebLogic Server to look for certain files to be handled
          by specific servlets handling their file extension types:
          weblogic.httpd.indexFiles=index.foo,index.bar
          Where servlets must be registered to handle all files with extension ".foo" and
          ".bar", such as:
          weblogic.httpd.register.*.foo=com.myservlets.FooServlet
          weblogic.httpd.register.*.bar=com.myservlets.BarServlet
          The comma separated list of filenames is searched in order, and precedes the
          invocation of the FileServlet, and hence precedes the defaultFilename associated
          with the FileServlet. Note that servlets must be registered to handle the listed
          file extension types.
          Hope this helps,
          Robert
          Brian Cunningham wrote:
          > Thanks for the reply. But, I guess I should've stated my problem more
          > clearly.
          >
          > I have my obj.conf configured to serve index.jsp as my home page and I've
          > tried adding it as an index file as well. It's also configured to proxy all
          > text/jsp to WL and anything under a specified directory. However, when a
          > user goes to http://www.myhomepage.com/ and the obj.conf tries to deliver
          > the configured home page of index.jsp it doesn't proxy it correctly to WL.
          > WL, for whatever reason, will deliver it's specified default file instead of
          > the index.jsp. My guess is that iPlanet will only proxy the requests based
          > on the URL. So, even though index.jsp is configured as the home page and
          > iPlanet is configured to proxy all jsp requests to WL, it still doesn't work
          > correctly. I don't want to use iPlanet to serve the jsp using its JSP
          > engine. I just can't get it to proxy correctly to WL. I've tried a few
          > dozen configurations in iPlanet which have all failed.
          >
          > The only other solution I can think of is to allow iPlanet to work
          > incorrectly but configure WL to serve a JSP as its home page. However,
          > weblogic.properties is configured by default to use the FileServlet to serve
          > the defaultFile. How can I configure weblogic.properties to deliver a jsp
          > as its default file? I tried changing the obvious lines without any
          > success, i.e. register ServletServlet with initArgs of
          > defaulServletName=index.jsp but that didn't work.
          >
          > Any ideas?
          >
          > Wei Guan <[email protected]> wrote in message
          > news:[email protected]...
          > > Comments inline.
          > >
          > > --
          > > Cheers - Wei
          > >
          > >
          > > Brian Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote in message
          > > news:[email protected]...
          > > > Is it possible to configure the iPlanet web server 4.1 to serve a JSP as
          > > its
          > > > home page from WL when a user hits a URL like http://www.mywebsite.com?
          > > Yes, you have to setup index.jsp as a default page in iPlanet. However,
          > I'd
          > > rather like to setup WebLogic to serve JSP and servlet while iPlanet
          > serves
          > > static pages only.
          > >
          > > > The
          > > > proxy by jsp extension and directory work fine when the URL is anything
          > > > other than the default web site. I'd rather avoid doing a redirection
          > in
          > > an
          > > > HTML page to a JSP page. In my testing, if the home page in iPlanet is
          > > set
          > > > to a JSP page, the proxy rules don't go into effect properly and for
          > some
          > > > reason iPlanet asks WL to serve it's default page.
          > > It might be your weblogic plugin setup. In your servlet setup in obj.conf,
          > > if you use path pattern, such as "/weblogic*", and if you request
          > > http://www.mywebsite.com/weblogic/abc/, iPlanet will proxy it to weblogic
          > > since it match "/weblogic*". So, weblogic has to figure out what the
          > default
          > > page is. So, the URL mathces the ppath in servlet proxy setup will not
          > work.
          > > Check to see if this applies to your case.
          > >
          > > My 2 cents.
          > >
          > > >
          > > > Any ideas on how I can get this to work?
          > > >
          > > > -Brian Cunningham
          > > >
          > > >
          > >
          > >