Question

Right now, every time I type mydomain.com it would automatically go to mydomain.com/projectname/home.jsf, which is my login page. Not sure why, I know I still in session meaning that I can navigate to a restricted page without login in again. So how do I make so that if I type mydomain.com, I go to mydomain.com/projectname/CentralFeed.jsf instead of login page if the user still in session. Here is my rough design

In my web.xml

<welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>CentralFeed.jsf</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>          
<login-config>
    <auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
    <realm-name>jdbc-realm-scholar</realm-name>
    <form-login-config>
        <form-login-page>/home.jsf</form-login-page>
        <form-error-page>/LoginError.jsf</form-error-page>
    </form-login-config>
</login-config>
 <filter>
    <filter-name>MyFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>com.scholar.servlet.MyFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>MyFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/CentralFeed.jsf</url-pattern>        
    <url-pattern>/TextBook.jsf</url-pattern>
    ...
</filter-mapping> 

I am not sure if you guys need to know this, but I also have a Filter call MyFilter, which map to restricted page, and check if the user still in session, if so then just chain.doFilter(req, res);, if not then redirect to login page home.jsf

Answer 1

put index.jsp

and in it put

<% response.sendRedirect("desired URL"); %>

remove

<welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>CentralFeed.jsf</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>    

from web.xml