Friday, December 14, 2007

Enable Directory Listings in Tomcat

Enable Directory Listings in Tomcat

We can enable Directory listings for applications when welcome files are mentioned.

For that we have to use web.xml in conf folder. The lines which are make bold with blue color do the tricks.

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>debug</param-name>
            <param-value>0</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>listings</param-name>
            <param-value>true</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>