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Question

I have a web app, I want to define my index.jsp file to be shown when the entered url is like:

www.mysite.com
www.mysite.com/
www.mysite.com/index.jsp

but if any other url is entered, like:

wwww.mysite.com/g

I want a particular servlet to handle the request. In my web.xml file, I am doing this:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>ServletCore</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.me.test.ServletCore</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>ServletCore</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

so that is letting the ServletCore servlet pick up any url, but as expected it is taking over even the:

www.mysite.com/index.jsp

type urls. How can I define it in such a way to work how I want?

Thank you

Solution 1

For your linux server you can use inotify-tools based on inotify. For your windows server I haven't a solution.

Solution 2

If you wanted an Open Source tool, I'd recommend OSSEC (works on both Windows and Linux), which also offers commercial support if required.

A commercial option is Verisys. It's easy to use and a lot cheaper than Tripwire (from your question I would say that Tripwire would be way too expensive, and bloated for your requirements).

Comments

[StackKrish]

+1 for inotify for Linux systems. Also check out iwatch.sourceforge.net which is a perl script that uses inotify.

[Maximus Minimus]

+1 for SharePoint; seems to meet the requirement better.