Re: [jetty-users] Help with configuring webapp to redirect

[Todd Nine <todd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alexei,

  Thank you for all your help.  I finally got this working today by doing the following in the file /etc/jetty/contexts/root-context.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

 <!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Mort Bay Consulting//DTD Configure//EN" "http://jetty.mortbay.org/configure.dtd">

<Configure class="org.mortbay.jetty.handler.MovedContextHandler">

    <Set name="ContextPath">

        /

    </Set>

    <Set name="NewContextURL">

        /aviator

    </Set>

    <Set name="Permanent">

        true

    </Set>

    <Set name="DiscardPathInfo">

        true

    </Set>

    <Set name="DiscardQuery">

        true

    </Set>

</Configure>

This works perfectly.  It redirects the root context "/" to my application's context.  

Thanks!

Todd

On 22 February 2011 21:24, Alexei Mikhailov <alexei.mikhailov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2/21/11 9:59 PM, Todd Nine wrote:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Mort Bay Consulting//DTD Configure//EN"
"http://jetty.mortbay.org/configure.dtd">
<Configure class="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
<Set name="contextPath">/</Set>
<Set name="handler">
<New id="Handlers" class="org.mortbay.jetty.handler.rewrite.RewriteHandler">
<Call name="addRule">
<Arg>
<New id="rootRewrite" class="org.mortbay.jetty.handler.rewrite.RedirectPatternRule">
<Set name="pattern">/*</Set>
<Set name="location">/aviator</Set>
</New>
</Arg>
</Call>
</New>
</Set>
</Configure>

However, when I open localhost:8080/, I'm not redirected to
localhost:8080/aviator as I need. Everything parses, and I've used
similar rules in apache, so I'm surprised this one doesn't work

Hi again!
At least in my Jetty 6.1.15 under etc there is jetty-rewrite.xml configuration file, which you can use as a complement to other configuration files when starting jetty.

There are few examples in that one related to different rewrite handlers. I tested RedirectPatternRule from that file with "/*" as a pattern and "/thiswasrewritten" as replacement, and it worked as it should -- when I called http://localhost:8080/whereami, it got redirected to http://localhost:8080/hereiam.

So compare your configuration with the one in Jetty's etc (or maybe adopt that one for your needs?)

Hope that helps.
Alex-