Question

I would like to prevent Tomcat from listing the files in a directory when the URL ends at directory. This would be like .htaccess for apache.

So that when a user navigates to :
http://www.test.com/f_apps/ — nothing is lised or error message
but going to:
http://www.test.com/f_apps/welcome.jsp — works correctly

I assume it’s a change to META-INF/context.xml but I’m still new to Tomcat stuff so wasn’t sure how to modify it for this change.

Answer 1

You need to disable the DefaultServlet‘s listings setting in /conf/web.xml.

<init-param>
    <param-name>listings</param-name>
    <param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>

You can find details in its documentation: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/default-servlet.html