Using tomcat, how do I get a request for http://www.mydomain.com to redirect to http://www.mydomain.com/somethingelse/index.jsp ? i haven't even managed to get an index.html to display from http://mydomain.com.
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.html
or /index.jsp
,
and save.
Remove webapp/ROOT/index.html
, if it exists.
Create the file webapp/ROOT/index.jsp
with 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.