Question

My Servlet mapping looks like:

<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>myservlet</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

So my Servlet responds to requests such as http://bla.com/myservlet/bla/bla/bla

How can I make it respond to http://bla.com/bla/bla/bla and get rid of the myservlet portion of the path.

Further I want to strip the hello world servlet the the default welcome files that come with Jetty.

Thanks.

Note:

1. I know how to do this using mod_rewrite / Apache — I’m looking for a different solution.

Answer 1

If you are using Jetty installation. There are two ways to do it

1. you can rename your war file as root.war, makes it’s context root as /

2. create context.xml for your webapp

   <!-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -->
   <!-- Required minimal context configuration :                        -->
   <!--  + contextPath                                                  -->
   <!--  + war OR resourceBase                                          -->
   <!-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -->
   <Set name="contextPath">/</Set>
   <Set name="war"><SystemProperty name="jetty.home" default="."/>/webapps/blawh.war</Set>
   

   context.xml lives under $JETTY_HOME/contexts. As you can see this directory already has context.xml for test.war. You can get decent idea of how your webapp’s context.xml should look like by seeing the test.xml.
   Once you are done with creating your own, go ahead and delete contexts/test.xml, contexts/test.d and webapps/test.war. (just to clean test stuffs). This answers your second question too.

If you are using maven, just do this:

 <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
            <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
              <webAppConfig>
                <contextPath>/</contextPath>
              </webAppConfig>
              <!-- snip -->

refer: Jetty/Howto/Deploy Web Applications