Re: [jetty-users] Another newbie-9.x-user question

[John English <john.foreign@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/02/2017 12:52, Simone Bordet wrote:
> If not, because you always use specific virtual hosts for your
> webapps, then you can have a super-simple webapp deployed at "/" with
> no virtual hosts whose only page displays a 404 message.

Thanks Simone,
This seems to solve my problem. I set up a second webapp with a single 
servlet-mapping for "/*", and deployed it using the following XML:

<Configure class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
  <Set name="contextPath">/</Set>
  <Set name="war"><Property name="jetty.webapps" default="."/>/404app</Set>
</Configure>

This does exactly the trick, but it feels a bit fragile to my paranoid 
mind -- since I now have two webapps mapped to "/", one with a virtual 
host list and one without, what guarantees that the one with the host 
list gets invoked when a valid hostname is given, and prevents the other 
one swallowing all the requests whether the host name is valid or not? 
In other words, what defines the search order for a matching webapp?

Since it works I should probably just trust it, but I'm a bit wary of 
deploying things I don't fully understand in case it suddenly breaks 
later... so if you can just explain this last point to me I will finally 
be able to sleep easy... :)

But thanks for the solution!
--
John English