Tomcat base URL redirection

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Using tomcat, how do I get a request for http://www.mydomain.example to redirect to http://www.mydomain.example/somethingelse/index.jsp? I haven't even managed to get an index.html to display from http://mydomain.example.

@NonaUrbiz: isn't .htaccess Apache http server specific and does not work with Tomcat? — Tim Büthe, Nov 16 '11 at 16:05
For anyone else Tomcat don't seem to recommend it see their docs - https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Running+Jenkins+behind+Apache — KCD, Mar 26 '13 at 22:03

score 123 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 11 '17 at 12:20

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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.

edited Apr 11 '17 at 12:20

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answered Sep 01 '09 at 17:56

Viral Patel

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Only needed step #2. Tested on Tomcat 7. – dustmachine Oct 07 '11 at 22:06
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The sendRedirect command was all that was needed for me. index.jsp just contains: <% response.sendRedirect("/jasperserver"); %> – Andy Burton Jan 11 '13 at 11:20
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Don't forget to add <% and %> before any jsp scriptlet – Jasim Muhammed Jun 14 '14 at 12:10
Should be fixed now, I also fixed some other things. – reinierpost Apr 11 '17 at 12:21
Java wasn't working for me, so I used index.html with html redirection. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5411538/redirect-from-an-html-page – Dec 08 '17 at 13:10
If you need to include query parameters, you can do something like this: `<% response.sendRedirect(request.getQueryString()!=null ? ("/some/where?" + request.getQueryString()) : "/some/where"); %>` – anztenney Apr 03 '18 at 14:58

score 26 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 01 '09 at 17:16

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Name your webapp WAR “ROOT.war” or containing folder “ROOT”

answered Sep 01 '09 at 17:16

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This approach causes a lot of problems when working on local and then deploying your application to multiple servers. Specially if you have multiple projects going to be deployed on different servers, and each can be ROOT on their own servers. – zookastos Aug 20 '19 at 15:49

score 19 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 01 '09 at 17:35

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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.

answered Sep 01 '09 at 17:35

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UrlRewriteFilter is fast and worked well for me. [the manual](http://urlrewritefilter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/doc/manual/4.0/index.html) has some great options and [this blog post](http://nematodes.org/martin/2010/02/04/301-permanent-redirect-with-tomcat-howto/) also has some good info. – cwd May 02 '13 at 23:05

score 14 · Answer 4 · edited Nov 25 '16 at 21:44

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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 %>

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answered Jun 22 '16 at 13:07

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score 9 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 20 '12 at 05:51

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What i did:

I added the following line inside of ROOT/index.jsp

 <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=/somethingelse/index.jsp"/>

answered Mar 20 '12 at 05:51

Kevin

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This might really screw up your analytics data, since the referral will be lost. – Stas Bichenko Aug 31 '15 at 10:21
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One small benefit of this method is it can go in index.html instead of index.jsp – Edd Feb 23 '16 at 16:34
@AdrianRM "it's not the way to do it", so what is the right way? – Ed Griebel Jun 23 '16 at 13:43
Viral Patel's and ChssPly76's are both valid answers: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1363781/208576 http://stackoverflow.com/a/1363685/208576 – AdrianRM Jun 24 '16 at 16:40
This worked for me until I have enabled HTTPS. Switched to `<% response.sendRedirect("/some/where"); %>` and it works with HTTPS now. – Michał Maciej Gałuszka Apr 26 '18 at 13:50

score 5 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 08 '19 at 13:54

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In Tomcat 8 you can also use the rewrite-valve

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$         /somethingelse/index.jsp

To setup the rewrite-valve look here:

http://tonyjunkes.com/blog/a-brief-look-at-the-rewrite-valve-in-tomcat-8/

answered Jan 08 '19 at 13:54

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