Tomcat base URL redirection
Tested and Working procedure:
Goto the file path
..\apache-tomcat-7.0.x\webapps\ROOT\index.jsp
remove the whole content or declare the below lines of code at the top of the index.jsp
<% response.sendRedirect("http://yourRedirectionURL"); %>
Please note that in jsp file you need to start the above line with <% and end with %>
You can do this:
If your tomcat installation is default and you have not done any changes, then the default war will be ROOT.war
. Thus whenever you will call http://yourserver.example.com/
, it will call the index.html
or index.jsp
of your default WAR file. Make the following changes in your webapp/ROOT
folder for redirecting requests to http://yourserver.example.com/somewhere/else
:
Open
webapp/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml
, remove any servlet mapping with path/index.html
or/index.jsp
, and save.Remove
webapp/ROOT/index.html
, if it exists.Create the file
webapp/ROOT/index.jsp
with this line of content:<% response.sendRedirect("/some/where"); %>
or if you want to direct to a different server,
<% response.sendRedirect("http://otherserver.example.com/some/where"); %>
That's it.
Name your webapp WAR “ROOT.war” or containing folder “ROOT”
Take a look at UrlRewriteFilter which is essentially a java-based implementation of Apache's mod_rewrite.
You'll need to extract it into ROOT
folder under your Tomcat's webapps
folder; you can then configure redirects to any other context within its WEB-INF/urlrewrite.xml
configuration file.