Forwarding/Redirecting causes java.io.FileNotFoundException but file exists

[Phil Powell]

http://www.mydomain.com/common/handler.jsp:

<jsp:forward page="/common/error_page.jsp" />

This throws a java.io.FileNotFoundException:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: resource not found: /common/error_page.jsp

However, I can go to http://www.mydomain.com/common/error_page.jsp and verify that it does indeed exist.

Why would it throw a FileNotFoundException if not only does the forwarding page exist but exists within the exact same web module?

I checked ibm-web-ext.xml for the "common" web module to notice that fileServingEnabled="true".

Any ideas why this is happening?

[Bear Bibeault]

Is common a folder name in the root web app, or is common the context path?

if it's the context path, you don't specify it on a forward.

[Phil Powell]

/common is one of the context roots.

I figured out that it's possible now to do forwarding from within the same web module, however, we are unable to forward to another web module.

I need to be able to forward from /main/register.jsp (/main is one context root) to /common/error_page.jsp (/common is another context root), but that constantly fails.

We were completely able to forward between web modules until a couple of weeks ago when a server reboot took place and then suddenly that ability was gone; we constantly get java.io.FileNotFoundException errors thrown every time we try to forward from one web module to another

We're using WebSphere 6.0 if that helps any.