[gyrex-dev] Having a Servlet and a Resource with the same "/" (Root) Ali

[Christoph Rueger <christoph@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gunnar,

a question regarding the aliases of servlets and resources and what the best solution would be:

My Problem: 

1. I have servlet "WelcomeController" with the default alias "welcome" so that I can call it by http://localhost:8080/mysampleapp1/welcome

2. I now also want to be that my default servlet, so that I can call with with http://localhost:8080/mysampleapp1/

3. to achieve 2. I have registered a new Servlet with the alias "/" which also points to the same WelcomeController servlet.  That works, but see 4.

4. I also have a resource registered for the alias "/" which points to my public folder to get images and css etc. 

When I now call http://localhost:8080/mysampleapp1/ I see the output of the WelcomeController which is what I expect. But it also seems that the "/" resource isn't working anymore, because now my image on that page doesn't display anymore.

I debugged it and found that when the image URL is called (http://localhost:8080/mysampleapp1/images/logo.png) it now alos tries to route that to the WelcomeController. 

How can I achieve that I have something like a default servlet for the alias "/" and also having all my resources also under this alias "/" ?

Here are the extension points of the plugin.xml of my example app. I am only talking about application1 here. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<?eclipse version="3.4"?>

<plugin>

   <extension

         point="org.eclipse.gyrex.http.applications">

      <application

            contextPath="/christoph"

            id="org.eclipse.gyrex.sample1.application1">

      </application>

      <mount

            applicationId="org.eclipse.gyrex.sample1.application1"

            url="">

      </mount>

      <servlet

            alias="/"

            applicationId="org.eclipse.gyrex.sample1.application1"

            class="org.eclipse.gyrex.sample1.WelcomeController">

      </servlet>

      <servlet

            alias="/welcome"

            applicationId="org.eclipse.gyrex.sample1.application1"

            class="org.eclipse.gyrex.sample1.WelcomeController">

      </servlet>

      <mount

            applicationId="org.eclipse.gyrex.sample1.application2"

            url="">

      </mount>

      <servlet

            alias="/welcome"

            applicationId="org.eclipse.gyrex.sample1.application2"

            class="org.eclipse.gyrex.sample1.WelcomeController">

      </servlet>

      <application

            contextPath="/gunnar"

            id="org.eclipse.gyrex.sample1.application2">

      </application>

      <resource

            alias="/"

            applicationId="org.eclipse.gyrex.sample1.application1"

            path="public/">

      </resource>

   </extension>

</plugin>

Thanks

Christoph