Redirection and 404 Error

[Moses Babylone]

Hello,
I have 2 problems:
1. I need to do a redirection for my website in the following manner. How should I do it? I am using Tomcat server. Please note that there are urlrewrite.xml and web.xml files present on the server.
Current view: www.mydomain.com/blog/12345678
I want this to appear like: www.mydomain.com/blog/this-is-the-title-of-blog.html


2. I tried entering this code for 404 redirection towards my home page. But it does not work. How should I correct it?
<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
<location>/index.jsp</location>
</error-page>

Thanks for helping me.

[Devaka Cooray]

Welcome to Javaranch.

Do you run on Spring or that urlrewrite.xml is something your code reads? I am not sure what you are trying to accomplish with a 404 (not found) and a redirect. Are you probably trying to do something like showing a 404 error and then redirecting to the new location?

[Moses Babylone]

Hello,
There are two different things. I do not want to mix them.

In general there is no 404 error page coded for the website. So I want to redirect all users to index page in case 404 error happens.

For redirects it is another issue... not related to 404.
All redirects are mentionned in the urlrewrite.xml file. and I want to create a new redirect as mentioned above.

Thank you!

[Hariharan Thirumeni]

Check the location of your index.jsp. It should be relative to the web app. In your case it should be inside your home web app folder..