tomcat url redirect

hesisaboury · 05-12-2013, 03:16 AM

hello,
i have http://example.com in tomcat now i want redirect all request to http://www.example.com/ ...
any suggestion

DinoFly · 05-12-2013, 08:08 AM

You can use HttpRedirectFilter you can find it http://www.zlatkovic.com/httpredirectfilter.en.html, or you can use UrlRewriteFilter as is httpd-s mod_rewrite,

or simply use index.jsp with a code:

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

u2013 · 05-13-2013, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hesisaboury

hello,
i have http://example.com in tomcat now i want redirect all request to http://www.example.com/ ...
any suggestion

In general, any kind of redirect of that kind can be done via .htaccess file that the http/https server references before pumping out data to the visitor.

I believe it would be the following. I am not 100% sure about the format, but I think it is correct. If wrong, then it will at least get you going in the needed direction.

Within .htaccess file in your sites http folder (commonly public_html, or /var/http)

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ "http\:\/\/www\.example\.com" [R=301,L]

DinoFly · 05-14-2013, 04:04 AM

Point is the apache tomcat is not aware of .htaccess. You can connect tomcat with httpd via connectors (mod_jk) but it is pointless doing it for url redirect.

hesisaboury · 05-14-2013, 05:49 AM

Thank You All,
I'm trying HttpRedirectFilter , but it does not work
<redirect-filter>
<redirect match="^(.*)$" target="www.example.com"/>
</redirect-filter>

in web.xml
<filter>
<filter-name>HttpRedirectFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>com.zlatkovic.servlet.RedirectFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>configFile</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/redirect-filter.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>reloadConfig</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>logRedirects</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>

<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>HttpRedirectFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

any suggestion

DinoFly · 05-14-2013, 01:49 PM

and have you made the configuration file that you are calling?

Quote:

/WEB-INF/redirect-filter.xml

does it contain the info what to redirect, where to redirect?

hesisaboury · 05-14-2013, 11:29 PM

in my redirect-filter.xml

<!DOCTYPE redirect-filter PUBLIC
"-//zlatkovic.com//DTD RedirectFilter 2.0//EN"
"http://www.zlatkovic.com/dtd/redirect-filter-2.0.dtd">

<redirect-filter>
<redirect match="^(.*)$" target="https://www.example.com"/>
</redirect-filter>

DinoFly · 05-15-2013, 10:55 AM

I don't see any problem as long as you added to /WEB-INF/web.xml

Code:

<filter>
<filter-name>HttpRedirectFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>com.zlatkovic.servlet.RedirectFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>configFile</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/redirect-filter.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>reloadConfig</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>logRedirects</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>

<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>HttpRedirectFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

and on the /WEB-INF/redirect-filter.xml

Code:

<!DOCTYPE redirect-filter PUBLIC
"-//zlatkovic.com//DTD RedirectFilter 2.0//EN"
"http://www.zlatkovic.com/dtd/redirect-filter-2.0.dtd">

<redirect-filter>
<redirect match="^(.*)$" target="https://www.example.com"/>
</redirect-filter>

I can see you matching anything that has at least 1 character and redirecting it on https://www.example.com

Code:

<redirect match="^(.*)$" target="https://www.example.com"/>

Is your JRE > 1.6.0?
Have you installed the redirectfilter-2.0.jar file to /WEB-INF/lib ?
Off course it needs to restart the tomcat.

I don't see any reason why it wont work. Maybe you should ask the developers it is on their web the contact info.

And if you manage to make it work than post it back here for others who have similar issue.

Regards

DinoFly · 05-15-2013, 11:06 AM

Emm try to put "/" in your code

Code:

<redirect match="^(.*)$" target="https://www.example.com"/>

it should look:

Code:

<redirect match="^/(.*)$" target="https://www.example.com"/>

Meaning anydirectory .

Is "https://www.example.com" hosted on your serer aswell? if so put the exact dir's to be redirected.

example:

Code:

<redirect match="^/firstdir(.*)$" target="/seconddir$1"/>

where "/firstdir" is the dir of your http://example.com and "/seconddir" to https://www.example.com
I don't know if it actually works with url since it only has examples with working directories.

hesisaboury · 05-17-2013, 05:20 AM

i removed port 80 tp 433 redirect in server.xml
when i use <redirect match="^/(.*)$" target="https://www.example.com"/>
in browser it will be http://example.com/https://www.example.com/

hesisaboury · 05-17-2013, 09:01 AM

Finally
by changing /ROOT/index.html and editing URL , to htts://www.example.com/login ... i solved my Redirection Problem....of course till now i don't see any problem....

Thanks ALL

hesisaboury · 05-17-2013, 11:57 AM

Sorry ... It's NOT OK
when i type IP instead or domain name .. it goes to bad SSL ...what the ...

Any Suggestion