Re: [Jetty-support] URL redirect

[robf <rob...@sp...>]

So there is no way to modify the Jetty config files to provide this
functionality?


Steve Loughran wrote:
> 
> 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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