Newbie Question

[Mike London]

I am trying to get a basic Login form to work. What I have done is to create an "index.jsp" in the root of the Webapps folder that I'm trying to redirect to a page in the form directory under Webapp -> form/login.jsp.

However, when I try to get this to work, I get a newbie error like the one below:

javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot create rewrite URL: java.net.MalformedURLException: Cannot retrieve ActionForward named index

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In my index.jsp page, I put a forwarder like this:

<html:link forward="index" />

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Then, in the struts-config.xml, I have this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.2//EN" "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-config_1_2.dtd">

<struts-config>
<data-sources />
<form-beans >
<form-bean name="loginForm" type="net.test.struts.form.LoginForm" />
</form-beans>

<global-exceptions />
<global-forwards >

<forward name="success" path="/form/LoginSuccess.jsp" />
<forward name="failure" path="/form/LoginFailure.jsp" />

</global-forwards>

<action-mappings >
<action
attribute="loginForm"
input="/form/login.jsp"
name="loginForm"
path="/login"
scope="request"
type="net.test.struts.action.LoginAction" />

</action-mappings>

<message-resources parameter="net.test.struts.ApplicationResources" />
</struts-config>

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I tried adding a global forwarder, but that didn't work, at least the way I did it.

What do I need to change to get this to work?

Thanks in advance to all.

Mike

[Merrill Higginson]

Try it this way:

<logic:forward name="success" />

making sure this is the only line of code in the JSP aside from the taglib declarations.
Note: it's better to use names like "success" and "failure" as local forwards. A global forward should be named something like "login".
[ February 04, 2007: Message edited by: Merrill Higginson ]

[Mike London]

Thanks for your reply, but this isn't what I'm trying to do.

Instead, I'm trying to redirect from index.jsp (in the web app root) to the form/login.jsp page.

THEN, if the login is successful, I'd redirect (based on the loginAction class) to either the success or failure pages.

Can you explain how to do this?

Thanks.

M

[Merrill Higginson]

Just create a global forward named "login" that points to /form/login.jsp and specify <logic:forward name="login" /> in your index.jsp.

[Mike London]

Thanks. I can't believe I missed that obvious error. Thanks also to your correction to my link in the index.jsp page. I guess I copied one that wasn't correct from somewhere.

I also fixed a problem where the "name" of the email address field was "email" , not name="emailAddress". Once I fixed that too, all worked OK.

Thanks again for your terrific help!!!

M