Struts2: URL action relative path

Question

I have a created an struts2 tags url. something like this.

<s:url action="login" var="login_url">
</s:url>

Upon Seeing the generated HTML. it gave me this

<a href="/MyProjectName/login">login</a>

Which is something I Do not like. I all I want to see is this

<a href="login">login</a>

It is currently giving me the full project name. is there a way I can prevent this when using struts2

I mean MyProjectName could be namespace if you deployed to the ROOT. And I asked what's this. — Roman C, Jan 21 '13 at 21:35
Oh, MyProjectName is not a namespace. I am using the default namespace . I have updated my question. — user962206, Jan 21 '13 at 21:42
Look at your question where "currently giving me the full namespace" — Roman C, Jan 21 '13 at 21:43
you should distinguish between webapp context name and namespace, are you? — Roman C, Jan 21 '13 at 21:46
but different parts, the project name could be as context name but not as namespace name — Roman C, Jan 21 '13 at 21:52
@RomanC Okay I got it. the generated url '/MyProjectName/' is the context itself. while 'login' is the uri. even though I set includeContext = "false". the generated url still has this '/' before the login. like this '/login' which I want to eliminate — user962206, Jan 21 '13 at 22:02
why, you will not be able to execute action without context, that slash state that you have not context — Roman C, Jan 21 '13 at 22:09
because, whenever I use an ajax request on it together with HTML5 PUSH state. the Url becomes like this localhost:8090/MyProjectName/#/MyProjectName/login. because of the context. what I am aiming is localhost:8090/MyProjectName/#/login. — user962206, Jan 21 '13 at 22:19
then you don't need includeContext, use value="login" in the url tag — Roman C, Jan 21 '13 at 22:34
@RomanC it worked. is there a way I can select oyur answer as the best answer? — user962206, Jan 21 '13 at 23:36

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 21 '13 at 07:50

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Your application is deployed in that context. You need it to get the url to work. If the context is not present you will get 404 errors. You should deploy your application as a ROOT application to not show that context

answered Jan 21 '13 at 07:50

tom

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5328518/deploying-my-application-in-tomcat-in-the-root. For jboss, you deploy in ROOT.war – tom Jan 21 '13 at 08:44
I did deploy on root but it is still having a 404 error. the error seems to be the '/' before the href. – user962206 Jan 21 '13 at 14:00
If you use the struts2 s:a tag correct you should not have this problem. Make sure includeContext="true" or leave that option out. The default is correct. If you deployed it wrong it might be in the /root context. All the urls in our application start with a '/' – tom Jan 21 '13 at 14:11
Is there anyway to remove the '/' ? because I am currently using AJAX to load its contents together with Push state. when the tag is clicked the page cannot be loaded. however if I add the context in the url the page loads but the url looks messy. – user962206 Jan 21 '13 at 14:22
Wait, Why ROOT.war? I am using Eclipse. how would I achieve this? – user962206 Jan 21 '13 at 21:23
Also see [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14109735/deploy-war-file-in-tomcat-issue-after-deployment/14109873#14109873) – Roman C Jan 21 '13 at 21:58

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 26 '13 at 13:03

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Try to set the attribute includeContext to false so that

<s:url action="login" var="login_url" includeContext="false">
</s:url>

For more reference, check this

edited Jan 26 '13 at 13:03

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answered Jan 21 '13 at 07:29

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I tried your suggestion but upon clicking the link it gave me a 404 the url went something like this. http://localhost:8090/login . is there anyway to remove the extra / ? on the generated url – user962206 Jan 21 '13 at 07:41
There's still an extra slash in the before the url after I've set the includeContext="false" is there anyway I can remove it? – user962206 Jan 21 '13 at 14:01

Struts2: URL action relative path

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