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Redirect servlet URLs

Peter Braun
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Hello,

I would like to ask for some advice. I have some servlets at different URLs which are deprecated now. I would like to redirect all of them to common URL.
Can somebody please tell me how can I do that? Is it possible?

Thanks in advance.

Peter
Ulf Dittmer
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Can't you re-map them in the web.xml file?


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Peter Braun
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The problem is that there are four servlets are in different directory for legacy reasons. My new servlet is in another one under webapps directory.
For example: I would like to map localhost:8080/oldwebtool/someservlet to localhost:8080/ultimatetool/niceservlet

Do you know if it is possible to map them?
Ulf Dittmer
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If oldwebtool and newwebtool are both handled by the same web app (one that can listen on "/"), you can use its web-xml for remapping. But if they're in different web apps, remapping won't work.
In that case, you'd have to do it with Apache, e.g. the mod_rewrite module can do this.
[ November 25, 2005: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]
 
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