Hi Everybody,

Am using Tomcat 5.0 . My requirement is to redirect the URL "http://username.mysite.com" to "http://username.mysite.com/application.do?login_name=username". The URL should be nice URL , in the sense the New URL should not be reflected in the address bar. If the user invokes the URL http://mysite.com directly, i will bring him the login page. The URL "http://username.mysite.com" is the URL in which he can view his applications created using the tool am devoloping.

Please help me in this regard.....

Thanks and Regards,
Santhosh

Hi Santhosh,

To do this solely in Apache Tomcat, modify ROOT.war in /webapps/ so that welcome-file (as defined in /WEB-INF/web.xml) points to a JSP that redirects to your desired URL. This JSP can be something like this:

<% response.sendRedirect("/application.do?login_name=username"); %>

You may want to use a forward instead, which would be more efficient but it would not change how the URL looks in the browser location bar. Alternatively, you can use your web server front-end, either a load-balancer like an F5, or Apache HTTP Server with mod_rewrite, to do the redirection without putting load on your Java application server.

Jon Emerson
http://www.jonemerson.net/