Jetty config to redirect all 404s to home page

Question

Google has cached some old URLs to pages that no longer exist on a site. I'd like to redirect any 404 pages to the home page.

I have a jetty installation with a ROOT.war file installed in jetty/webapps. The ROOT.war file contains a WEB-INF/web.xml file that has the following in it:

<error-page>
    <error-code>404</error-code>
    <location>/</location>
</error-page>

However, this is only redirecting top level files, nothing in subdirectories. So the following URL get redirected to the home page:

http://mysite.com/pageDoesntExist.html

But this one doesn't and just gives a 404 error:

http://mysite.com/directoryDoesntExist/pageDoesntExist.html

Is there a way to configure all 404's to go to the home page? Can I do this in the jetty/contexts directory somehow?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 25 '11 at 05:49

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You want to use the org.mortbay.jetty.handler.MovedContextHandler: http://jetty.mortbay.org/xref/org/mortbay/jetty/handler/MovedContextHandler.html

Bots will use the Header 301 Redirect to update the cache google

answered Mar 25 '11 at 05:49

user676176

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Thanks. But I'm unclear on how to configure it to handle lots of URLs. I'm having to create a new context file for every single URL, which is crazy. There must be a better way. Can you provide an example, for instance to redirect all addresses in the `/directoryDoesntExist` directory to the home page? – Tauren Mar 29 '11 at 22:18

luca.vercelli · Answer 2 · 2020-12-17T16:12:33.460

An idea is:

<error-page>
    <error-code>404</error-code>
    <location>/error404.html</location>
</error-page>

(as described in Redirecting a 404 error page to a custom page of my Spring MVC webapp in Tomcat) and then inside error404.html do a redirect:

<html>
<head><title>Redirecting...</title></head>
<body>
    <script>
    document.location.href="/";
    </script>
</body>
</html>

(as described in how to redirect to home page)

Jetty config to redirect all 404s to home page

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