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Website behaving differently in Google App engine than in localhost - urlmapping


I was trying to do some stuffs with the tQueryCar : http://learningthreejs.com/blog/2012/05/21/sport-car-in-webgl/

I created a new app engine project and do the required stuffs and this webGL car was running fine on localhost. But when I uploaded it to app engine I'm getting some error in the firebug console. Everything is rendered except the car. This is the app engine url : http://tquerycar.appspot.com

I couldn't figure what actually is happening. Everything is working fine on localhost.

Edit : Ok. I have figured what's wrong is happening. My tQueryCar HTML code is making GET request to this address : http://tquerycar.appspot.com/plugins/car//examples/obj/veyron/parts/veyron_body_bin.js. But in my web.xml I've mapped the url / to my CarServlet class which in turn always output my index.html file. So I just want to ask now how to map URL in Java Servlet as stuffs work in a normal apache server. That's why site works fine on apache server running on localhost.

P.S. I personally don't know much about java servlet.


Solution

  • So the main problem was all the urls were mapped to CarServlet class which was outputting my index.html in response. So I created a CommonServlet class to map all other URLs :

    package in.omerjerk.tquerycar;
    
    @SuppressWarnings("serial")
    public class CommonServlet extends HttpServlet  {
     @Override
     protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
       throws ServletException, IOException {
      ServletContext sc = getServletContext();
      String path=req.getRequestURI().substring(req.getContextPath().length()+1, req.getRequestURI().length());
         String filename = sc.getRealPath(path);
    
         // Get the MIME type of the image
         String mimeType = sc.getMimeType(filename);
         if (mimeType == null) {
             sc.log("Could not get MIME type of "+filename);
             resp.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
             return;
         }
         // Set content type
         resp.setContentType(mimeType);
    
         // Set content size
         File file = new File(filename);
         resp.setContentLength((int)file.length());
    
         // Open the file and output streams
         FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
         OutputStream out = resp.getOutputStream();
    
         // Copy the contents of the file to the output stream
         byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
         int count = 0;
         while ((count = in.read(buf)) >= 0) {
             out.write(buf, 0, count);
         }
         in.close();
         out.close();
     }
    }
    

    And mapped /car to CarServlet and / to CommonServlet.