TomCat 6: can welcome page be inside WEB-INF?
servlets, tomcat, web.xml
Solution
Nothing inside WEB-INF can be directly accessed, but must first pass through something else (usually a servlet), which then forwards the request internally to the WEB-INF resource.
Problem
I'm following this example to get Spring up & running: http://static.springsource.org/docs/Spring-MVC-step-by-step/part2.html What they do is move all .jsp files inside the WEB-INF, to stop users accessing them directly... so far so good. However the servlet has a welcome page of index.jsp, and when this is moved inside the WEB-INF dir I get errors. I can't determine if Tomcat 6 should allow the welcome page to be inside WEB-INF or not?