Configuring Welcome Pages 

Use

You can configure a welcome page that is always displayed when the request to your application points to a directory (not a particular Web application component). An example is displaying the welcome page when the user requests the Web application’s root directory (since it is not common to have a Web component mapped to the “\” URL pattern). In case there are several welcome pages defined, the J2EE Engine searches the order they are defined in the web.xml and returns the first match.

If you do not specify a welcome page, the J2EE Engine searches for any of the pages defined by the Infer Names property of HTTP Provider Service in the root directory of the application and returns the first match. For more information about this process, see the Specifying Welcome Files in the Administration Manual.

Procedure

On the web.xml screen, proceed as follows:

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       1.      Open the Others screen.

       2.      Select Welcome Pages and then choose Add to add a new welcome page.

       3.      Choose … (next to the Welcome File field) to browse to the actual file. The file path (relative to the Web application’s root) appears in the Welcome File field.