Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Enabling Or Disabling Directory Listings Using Web.xml

Enabling or Disabling the directory listing using default servlet in tomcat.

<servlet>
<servlet-name>local_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>false</param-value> // change to "true" for listing
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>local_default</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>