Problem with url paths

[chaitanya karthikk]

Hi all, I am writing a sample login application. All my pages are under WEB-INF/jsp/ folder, only welcome page is in the root directory which in turn will forward the request to a page in WEB-INF/jsp/ directory using a controller.

My problem is with the relative paths. My project structure is:webapp | |__welcome.jsp |__WEB-INF/jsp | |__home.jsp |__loginform.jsp |__register.jsp |__welcome.jsp
In my webapp/welcome.jsp page the code is

<jsp:forward page="springbeginner/welcome" />

This will forward the request to a WelcomeController in which I am resolving the view like this

@RequestMapping("welcome")
public String showWelcomePage() {
	return "welcome";
}

This is my web.xml
<servlet> <servlet-name>beginner</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>beginner</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/springbeginner/*</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>
This is how my beginner-servlet.xml looks like<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver"> <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" /> <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" /> <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" /> <property name="order" value="2" /> </bean>My AuthenticationConroller looks like this

@Controller @RequestMapping("authentication")
public class AuthenticationController {
//..
}

The problem is when I forward the request to WEB-INF/jsp/welcome.jsp page the links is the page are getting a relative path like this

/springbeginner/authentication/registerpage

Now when I click on the register link it goes to AuthenticationController's showRegistrationForm method. It looks like this

@RequestMapping("registerpage")
public String showRegisterForm() {
return "register";
}

Now in the register.jsp page I have some form with action mapped to a controller like this<form action="register" method="post">...</form> < a href="welcome">back</a> Now the "back" link gets a relative path springbeginner/authentication/registerpage/welcome. When I click this it says 404 error. So I used < a href="../../welcome">back</a>This is hitting the WelcomeController. Is it good to put this ../../ in the code? or what approach should I take?

I hope all understood my problem. I think I explained a lot for a small problem, but I dint find any better way to explain. My apologizes.

Good day, thank you all in advance.

[Bill Gorder]

Is it good to put this ../../ in the code? or what approach should I take?

sure or alternatively use JSTL to create URL's which will prefix the context root.

for example if welcome is right off your context root, it might look something like below:

<a href="<c:url value="/welcome"/>">Some Link</a>

On a side note if I understand what I think your doing you are reinventing the wheel. You should take a look at spring-security for this sort of thing.

[chaitanya karthikk]

Thank you Mr. Bill. I will check