Thanks for everyone's help on this and my related message.
I found that using org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter
works well: http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/
With entries like:
<rule>
<from>/diglloyd/free/CardReaders/CardReaders.html</from>
<to type="redirect">/diglloyd/free/CardReaders/</to>
</rule>
(I'm not sure if I should stick "index.html" in the "to" URL)
Lloyd
On Apr 27, 2008, at 1:13 PM, DIGLLOYD INC wrote:
David,
I want to redirect perhaps a dozen links in directories that have a
main page accessed something like:
/stuff/start-page.html
In thinking about this, maybe my best solution is to rename the main
page to "index.html" for simplicity and use the org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter
with basic patterns.
Lloyd
On Apr 25, 2008, at 1:38 PM, David Fisher wrote:
Seconded.
DIGLLOYD said the following:
From what I can find by googling, redirects have a slew of issues
of their own. But I'm a newbie at this, so I might be
misunderstanding.
The only trouble I've had with redirects is when you redirect to a
page which redirects to a page which redirects to a page. Browsers
consider more than a few redirects in a row to be a bad thing and
they stop. My experience taught me (about 7 years ago) that more
then 2 was pushing things.
DIGLLOYD are only replacing a single generation of files, as you do
this "relinking" how many links do you want to "forward" or
"redirect"?
Regards,
Dave
On Apr 25, 2008, at 3:27 PM, David Smith wrote:
Never mind .. I saw your other responses and the best solution is
the redirect option. After following the redirect, the browser
will have the correct URL for calculating the full url of each of
the page's resources.
--David
David Smith wrote:
I see the problem. You could use absolute paths in jsp includes
and the servlet container would understand them as relative to
the webapp's root as opposed to the server's root:
Say you have this file layout
webapp
| index.jsp
| article1
| index.jsp
| article1.html
| article2
| index.jsp
| article1.html
article2/index.jsp could simply have <jsp:include file="/article1/
article1.html" /> and it would find article1.html in the article1
folder.
--David
DIGLLOYD INC wrote:
I previously asked about remapping URLs and got some helpful
responses. In a nutshell, this was recommended:
http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/
Looks very good for some purposes.
But I also want to solve a much simpler problem--
I have a very large amount of static content (articles), with
each article in its own directory. A main Table of Contents
links to the start page in each directory, which is *not*
index.html (eg some-main-page.html). I don't want to rename or
change those pages as they have world-wide direct links to them--
they have to stay as-is. But I do want to insert an index.jsp
page without altering any content.
For many of these folders inserting a trival index.jsp solves
the index-page problem:
<%@ include file="the-main-page.html" %>
(though I do wonder if google consider this unacceptable
duplicate content)
My pages all use relative links eg "..", "./", etc. So this
works ***when the page being included is in the same directory**.
But when the include page is in another directory, none of the
relative links work. None of these variants do the right thing;
any referenced images cannot be found.
<%@ include file="../ReviewInfo.html" %>
<jsp:include file="../ReviewInfo.html" %>
<jsp:forward page="../some-other-page.html" />
The jsp:forward directive seems perfect, but the flaw of not
changing the current location (eg no "cd" is done first) makes
it useless for this purpose. Or does it? Is there something
I'm missing here?
Alternately, is there some other trivial solution?
URL-rewriting is not appropriate in this case; there is no
particular pattern, just a fair number of specific cases. I was
hoping for a simple 1-line index.jsp in each directory.
Lloyd
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