Re: [Jetty-support] URL redirect

[Steve L. <st...@ap...>]

robf wrote:

> All,
> 
> I am maintaining an legacy application that is used to generate reports, the
> reports are hosted on a Jetty 4.0.4 web server and are made available to
> users via a URL (http://old_url/ra/reports).  Is it possible to configure
> Jetty so that when the users access http://old_url/ra/reports that they will
> be redirected to a different URL (http://new_url/SEAS)?

If its a new server, try editing the DNS entries so it has the same 
hostname as the old one. Then try and mount the new app under the old one.

-I know that apache and mod_rewrite can do this, but you dont really 
want to go there
-you may want to move all links deeper down the tree; anything people 
have bookmarked. I could imagine creating a new error handler servlet 
which, instead of returning a 404 on all links, sends  moved permanently 
(what is it? a 302? 303?) to the equivalent in the new site.

remember: good urls never change.

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