[jboss-jira] [Red Hat JIRA] (WFLY-14247) Error Page is not displayed when trying to access META-INF or WEB-INF

[ https://issues.redhat.com/browse/WFLY-14247?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugi... ] Melvin Yam updated WFLY-14247: ------------------------------ Description: I have a simple webapp war file with the following structure: {quote}{{Listing archive: mywebapp.war}}{{--}} {{Path = mywebapp.war}} {{Type = zip}} {{Physical Size = 1441}}{{Date Time Attr Size Compressed Name}} {{------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------}} {{2020-12-23 20:09:20 ....A 18 18 error.html}} {{2020-12-23 20:09:02 ....A 18 18 index.html}} {{2020-12-23 20:10:13 D.... 0 0 META-INF}} {{2020-12-23 03:16:37 ....A 39 39 META-INF\MANIFEST.MF}} {{2020-12-23 20:12:38 D.... 0 0 WEB-INF}} {{2020-12-23 20:12:28 D.... 0 0 WEB-INF\classes}} {{2020-12-23 20:12:35 D.... 0 0 WEB-INF\lib}} {{2020-12-23 20:11:54 ....A 480 248 WEB-INF\web.xml}} {{------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------}} {{2020-12-23 20:12:38 555 323 4 files, 4 folders}} {quote}   In web.xml, it defines the error page: {quote}<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_4_0.xsd" version="4.0"> <display-name>mywebapp</display-name> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> <error-page> <location>/error.html</location> </error-page> </web-app> {quote}   After deploying the webapp successfully in local WildFly server. Accessing the following URL will trigger the error page to be shown: [http://127.0.0.1:8080/mywebapp/dummy] [http://127.0.0.1:8080/mywebapp/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF] [http://127.0.0.1:8080/mywebapp/META-INF/dummy/dummy]   However, the following URL will NOT trigger the error page: [http://127.0.0.1:8080/mywebapp/META-INF] [http://127.0.0.1:8080/mywebapp/WEB-INF] [http://127.0.0.1:8080/mywebapp/WEB-INF/web.xml|http://127.0.0.1:8080/mywe...] [http://127.0.0.1:8080/mywebapp/WEB-INF/dummy/dummy] Instead, it just displays the text "404 - Not Found"       was: I have a simple webapp war file with the following structure: {quote}{{Listing archive: mywebapp.war}}{{--}} {{Path = mywebapp.war}} {{Type = zip}} {{Physical Size = 1441}}{{Date Time Attr Size Compressed Name}} {{------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------}} {{2020-12-23 20:09:20 ....A 18 18 error.html}} {{2020-12-23 20:09:02 ....A 18 18 index.html}} {{2020-12-23 20:10:13 D.... 0 0 META-INF}} {{2020-12-23 03:16:37 ....A 39 39 META-INF\MANIFEST.MF}} {{2020-12-23 20:12:38 D.... 0 0 WEB-INF}} {{2020-12-23 20:12:28 D.... 0 0 WEB-INF\classes}} {{2020-12-23 20:12:35 D.... 0 0 WEB-INF\lib}} {{2020-12-23 20:11:54 ....A 480 248 WEB-INF\web.xml}} {{------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------}} {{2020-12-23 20:12:38 555 323 4 files, 4 folders}}{quote}   In web.xml, it defines the error page: {quote}{{<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>}} {{<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"}} {{ xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_4_0.xsd" version="4.0">}} {{ <display-name>mywebapp</display-name>}} {{ <welcome-file-list>}} {{ <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>}} {{ </welcome-file-list>}} {{ <error-page>}} {{ <location>/error.html</location>}} {{ </error-page>}} {{</web-app>}}{quote}   After deploying the webapp successfully in local WildFly server. Accessing the following URL will trigger the error page to be shown: [http://127.0.0.1:8080/mywebapp/dummy] [http://127.0.0.1:8080/mywebapp/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF] [http://127.0.0.1:8080/mywebapp/META-INF/dummy/dummy]   However, the following URL will NOT trigger the error page: [http://127.0.0.1:8080/mywebapp/META-INF] [http://127.0.0.1:8080/mywebapp/WEB-INF] [http://127.0.0.1:8080/mywebapp/WEB-INF/web.xml|http://127.0.0.1:8080/mywe...] [http://127.0.0.1:8080/mywebapp/WEB-INF/dummy/dummy] Instead, it just displays the text "404 - Not Found"       -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v7.13.8#713008)