Don't want full path displayed in browser's address bar

roopan27 · Feb 27, 2004

Hey ,
In my application

, I have used an index.html which redirects the user to the login page which is inside the directory jsp. But when it goes there the full address is displayed in the browser's address bar i.e.

http://localhost:8080/PGMS/jsp/login.jsp

I don't want it to show the whole path.It should show only

http://localhost:8080/PGMS/login.jsp

How can I do that?

manarth · Feb 27, 2004

use a jsp:forward instead of a redirect. this will keep the current page's address in the browser URL, but send the login page. so you would appear to still be on the index page.

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roopan27 · Feb 28, 2004

I tried what you said but my login page is displayed without images and stylesheets.
My index.jsp is as follows:
<html>
<jsp:forward page="\jsp\pgms_login.jsp" />
</html>

My directory structure is:
PGMS
Inside PGMS there is:
jsp
WEB-INF
Inside jsp there is:
images
css
and all the jsp program files and I have used relative path for the images in my programs.

sedj · Feb 28, 2004

The easiest way is to not have your jsp pages in a "jsp" directory. Failing that, I think you can map JSP resource url patterns to resource directorys via web.xml in the same way that you map servlets to url patterns.

Read the documentation and web.xml dtd for hints as to do this ...

manarth · Feb 29, 2004

when you use jsp:forward, the forwarded page appears to all intents and purposes as the original page.
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so if your initial page is:

http://example.com/forums/chat/index.html

but that forwards to a login page on:

http://example.com/login.html,

your browser still thinks it's looking at: forums/chat/index.html.
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to fix: reference everything on the login page absoutely:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" />
<img src="/images/pic.jpg" />

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sedj · Feb 29, 2004

Or use the html tag <base href="bla.bla.bla">

roopan27 · Mar 3, 2004

I tried the solutions u guys suggested and it is working.
Jsp:forward works fine.But when in the login page I have a form and in action I have to give full path of next page.So after that again it starts showing the full path.I could not use jsp:forward there.
Doesn't Tomcat have any way in which an alias could be set and only that is dispayed in address bar?(like in iplanet).

siberian · Mar 6, 2004

You could put apache in front of tomcat and use mod_jk to push queries back to it.

Then use apache rewrite to manage your urls.

Thats what I do. Let tomcat do what tomcat is good at and let apache do what apache is good at.

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