Using tomcat, how do I get a request for http://www.mydomain.example to redirect to http://www.mydomain.example/somethingelse/index.jsp? I haven't even managed to get an index.html to display from http://mydomain.example.
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is there a reason .htaccess or isapi would not work?Nona Urbiz– Nona Urbiz2009-09-01 17:15:54 +00:00Commented Sep 1, 2009 at 17:15
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6@NonaUrbiz: isn't .htaccess Apache http server specific and does not work with Tomcat?Tim Büthe– Tim Büthe2011-11-16 16:05:32 +00:00Commented Nov 16, 2011 at 16:05
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For anyone else Tomcat don't seem to recommend it see their docs - wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/…KCD– KCD2013-03-26 22:03:17 +00:00Commented Mar 26, 2013 at 22:03
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You can do this:
If your tomcat installation is default and you have not done any changes, then the default war will be ROOT.war. Thus whenever you will call http://yourserver.example.com/, it will call the index.html or index.jsp of your default WAR file. Make the following changes in your webapp/ROOT folder for redirecting requests to http://yourserver.example.com/somewhere/else:
Open
webapp/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml, remove any servlet mapping with path/index.htmlor/index.jsp, and save.Remove
webapp/ROOT/index.html, if it exists.Create the file
webapp/ROOT/index.jspwith this line of content:<% response.sendRedirect("/some/where"); %>or if you want to direct to a different server,
<% response.sendRedirect("http://otherserver.example.com/some/where"); %>
That's it.
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dustmachine
Only needed step #2. Tested on Tomcat 7.
Andy Burton
The sendRedirect command was all that was needed for me. index.jsp just contains: <% response.sendRedirect("/jasperserver"); %>
Jasim Muhammed
Don't forget to add <% and %> before any jsp scriptlet
reinierpost
Should be fixed now, I also fixed some other things.
Java wasn't working for me, so I used index.html with html redirection. stackoverflow.com/questions/5411538/redirect-from-an-html-page
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Name your webapp WAR “ROOT.war” or containing folder “ROOT”
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zookastos
This approach causes a lot of problems when working on local and then deploying your application to multiple servers. Specially if you have multiple projects going to be deployed on different servers, and each can be ROOT on their own servers.
Take a look at UrlRewriteFilter which is essentially a java-based implementation of Apache's mod_rewrite.
You'll need to extract it into ROOT folder under your Tomcat's webapps folder; you can then configure redirects to any other context within its WEB-INF/urlrewrite.xml configuration file.
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cwd
UrlRewriteFilter is fast and worked well for me. the manual has some great options and this blog post also has some good info.
Tested and Working procedure:
Goto the file path
..\apache-tomcat-7.0.x\webapps\ROOT\index.jsp
remove the whole content or declare the below lines of code at the top of the index.jsp
<% response.sendRedirect("http://yourRedirectionURL"); %>
Please note that in jsp file you need to start the above line with <% and end with %>
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What i did:
I added the following line inside of ROOT/index.jsp
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=/somethingelse/index.jsp"/>
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Stas Bichenko
This might really screw up your analytics data, since the referral will be lost.
Edd
One small benefit of this method is it can go in index.html instead of index.jsp
Ed Griebel
@AdrianRM "it's not the way to do it", so what is the right way?
AdrianRM
Viral Patel's and ChssPly76's are both valid answers: stackoverflow.com/a/1363781/208576 stackoverflow.com/a/1363685/208576
Michał Maciej Gałuszka
This worked for me until I have enabled HTTPS. Switched to
<% response.sendRedirect("/some/where"); %> and it works with HTTPS now.In Tomcat 8 you can also use the rewrite-valve
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /somethingelse/index.jsp
To setup the rewrite-valve look here:
http://tonyjunkes.com/blog/a-brief-look-at-the-rewrite-valve-in-tomcat-8/
