IIS 7 default document jsp

[loren.k...@avenuearazorfish.com]

It seems to be impossible to specify a jsp as the default document in IIS 7, and have the request passed through to WAS 6.1. http://localhost/index.jsp works fine, but http://localhost does not. It seems like the WAS plugin just does not get invoked in this case, when the jsp is specified in IIS as the default document. I know that I can set up default.asp page, and have that redirect to index.jsp, but I would prefer not to install ASP on IIS, because I don't need it for any other purpose.

Does anyone have any ideas on this?

[Anant]

Try adding the index.jsp to the welcome-file-list in the web.xml

index.jsp

[loren.k...@avenuearazorfish.com]

Thanks for the suggestion - I had tried that already and it does not work. The reason is that the request does not get through to the app server, in order for the web.xml to be interpreted. IIS will give a 403 error, and not pass the request to Websphere. Possibly, this could be solved by specifying the URI "/" in the Websphere plugin cfg file, but this has other unintended consequences - we don't want all requests to be passed to Websphere, and also specifying "/" causes a side-effect and messes up IIS's default document handling.