Question

I am using Glassfish 3.1 and all the reference implementations and I got a question on how I can get Glassfish to see the index.xhtml and render it automatically through JSF, instead of making a index.html and then redirect to index.jsf (which is index.xhtml)? I am just jusing the default mapping in Glassfish (has not added mappings in web.xml) so I can write .jsf in the url field and the xhtml webpages is rendered.

Making a index.html with this: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=index.jsf" /> in every new folder is rather cumbersome and it is probably better ways of doing it.

Answer 1

Do the following in the web.xml:

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.xhtml</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

It depends on what url-pattern the Faces Servlet is mapped to and whether the request-url matches that pattern and if yes then it invokes the Faces Servlet and the request will be processed by the Faces Servlet.