calling Faces Servlet root URL throws Nullpointer - jsf

Question

My web project's .war file has the context root myapp/something and it is defined in the application.xml of the EAR file.
In this project I have some Servlets that work fine with this. But now I added a Server Faces Servlet to the web.xml with the pattern /Monitoring/mySite.
The problem now is that if I call the URL http://somehost/myapp/something/Monitoring/mySite I end up in a NullPointer loop because there is no view available (known Websphere issue, fix for that here).
I thought by setting web/page.xhtml as the welcome-file in the web.xml this should be fixed, but it only applies to the context-root of the application, namely /myapp/something.
So what works is if I make the following calls:
http://somehost/myapp/something/Monitoring/mySite/web/page.xhtml
http://somehost/myapp/something
TL;DR
But I would like to see the page.xhtml when I call http://somehost/myapp/something/Monitoring/mySite.
How can I accomplish this?
/TL;DR
The following is the web.xml of the project:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app id="myProject" version="2.4"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
<display-name>This is mySite</display-name>
<!-- Change to "Production" when you are ready to deploy -->
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>
<param-value>Production</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
<param-value>client</param-value>
</context-param>
<servlet>
<description></description>
<display-name>Monitoring</display-name>
<servlet-name>Monitoring</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>some.path.to.Monitoring</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<description></description>
<display-name>MonitoringExtended</display-name>
<servlet-name>MonitoringExtended</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>some.path.to.MonitoringExtended</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<description>
</description>
<display-name>FacesServlet</display-name>
<servlet-name>FacesServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Monitoring</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/Monitoring</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>MonitoringExtended</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/Monitoring/extended</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>FacesServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/Monitoring/mysite/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>FacesServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>web/page.xhtml</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>faces/web/page.xhtml</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
Here the part of my application.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<application xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/application_5.xsd" version="5">
<display-name>myApplication</display-name>
<module>
<ejb>myApplication.jar</ejb>
</module>
<module>
<web>
<web-uri>myProject.war</web-uri>
<context-root>myapp/something</context-root>
</web>
</module>
</application>
Here the ibm-web-ext.xml (legacy, didn't touch it):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<webappext:WebAppExtension xmi:version="2.0"
xmlns:xmi="http://www.omg.org/XMI" xmlns:webappext="webappext.xmi"
xmi:id="WebAppExtension_1229358884593" reloadInterval="3"
reloadingEnabled="true" additionalClassPath="" fileServingEnabled="true"
directoryBrowsingEnabled="false" serveServletsByClassnameEnabled="true">
<webApp href="WEB-INF/web.xml#WebApp_ID" />
</webappext:WebAppExtension>
And finally the ibm-web-bnd.xml(also legacy, didn't touch it):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<webappbnd:WebAppBinding xmi:version="2.0" xmlns:xmi="http://www.omg.org/XMI" xmlns:webappbnd="webappbnd.xmi" xmi:id="WebAppBinding_123456789" virtualHostName="default_host">
<webapp href="WEB-INF/web.xml#WebApp_ID"/>
</webappbnd:WebAppBinding>

Answer 1

I solved this with a workaround.
What I did is a URL pattern to my page.xhtml, but renamed so it would fit my needs, like this:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>FacesServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/Monitoring/mySite.xhtml</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>FacesServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
With this I need a new folder Monitoring in my WebContent folder (for other project I guess it's the webapp folder). There I would place my mySite.xhtml.
Now I can call http://somehost/myapp/something/Monitoring/mySite.xhtml.
Not quite the solution I hoped for (I would like to eliminate the .xhtml), but it works.
And with this I also don't run into the Nullpointer loop bug, because there is no URL pattern that would create it.