My 2c.
I think a new static page could easily make it clear what happened without
too much discomfort.
"Welcome to the NEW Apache Tomcat static landing page (replace this webapp
with your own... the old one, if deployed, is probably [here](/quickstart))"
etc. etc.
I would think that in a large portion of "enterprise" cases (a.k.a. those
having long maintenance expectations, as is the case at $myworkplace$),
Tomcat is being repackaged and the default ROOT is being overridden before
the default one is ever seen, in which case the fancy landing page isn't
really a problem to begin with and so you're mainly focusing on the stock
deployments and new users where, honestly, would they really know any
difference?
On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 9:24 AM Felix Schumacher <
felix.schumac...@internetallee.de> wrote:
>
>
> Am 6. Juni 2024 17:26:27 MESZ schrieb Konstantin Kolinko <
> knst.koli...@gmail.com>:
> >чт, 6 июн. 2024 г. в 17:44, Christopher Schultz <
> ch...@christopherschultz.net>:
> >>
> >> All,
> >>
> >> I'd like to change the existing webapps/ROOT/index.jsp to index.html and
> >> remove the dynamic elements. Currently, the only truly dynamic element
> >> in the whole file is this:
> >>
> >> "
> >> <p class="copyright">Copyright ©1999-${year} Apache Software
> >> Foundation. All Rights Reserved</p>
> >> "
> >>
> >> I don't see any particular reason that the Copyright information must
> >> always show the "current year". We can simply set this to "the current
> >> year" during the release process.
> >>
> >> This will mean that the default application will be completely static.
> >> Not much of an upgrade, *but* if a user would prefer to completely
> >> remove Jasper, it means that the default home page will be readable.
> >
> >Hi, Chris!
> >
> >Being involved in moderation of one of our mailing lists, I suspect that
> >some amount of spam is caused by our default web page,
> >when it is de-facto used as the front page of a third-party web site.
> >
> >That is, ASF is wrongly interpreted as an owner of that web site.
> >
> >My thoughts were:
> >a) Replace it with a simple static page that just says "It works" or
> similar.
> >b) Make content dynamic, so that the current content is shown to
> >localhost clients only,
> >and show the "simple" page for anyone else.
> >
> >An example of "a)" is Apache HTTPD:
> >
> >
> https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/docs/docroot/index.html?revision=1200966&view=markup
> >https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=105393
> >Oct 2004 (19 years, 8 months ago)
> >
> >My preference is for "a)".
>
> +1 for a simple (but still nice to look at) it-works page, when bundled
> into distribution package.
>
> Maybe a link to follow up steps on that page would be good.
>
> The old site could be used for development builds.
>
> Or as suggested moved into another context.
>
> I think b) would add too much surprise possibilities for admins/users to
> be worth it.
>
> Felix
>
> >
> >Maybe move the old shiny "root" page to the examples web application.
> >
> >Best regards,
> >Konstantin Kolinko
> >
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