Question

How can I integrate URL rewriting in my Glassfish v3 server?

The reason why I want to know this is that I am deploying a PHP application into my Glassfish server using Quercus.

But Quercus relies on mod_rewrite in the Apache Server to provide URL rewriting and this is not available in Glassfish.

Answer 1

Well, you have two options:

• either front your GlassFish instance with Apache and use mod_rewrite
• or use Tuckey’s Url Rewrite Filter

I guess the former is not an option (or you wouldn’t post this question). Regarding the later, you could adapt the solution given in Drupal on Glassfish with clean urls using Url Rewrite Filter. Basically, you’ll have to:

• Get Quercus’s war and unpack it
• Download the filter and unpack it inside Quercus (this will put the filter jar inside WEB-INF/lib and the urlrewrite.xml under WEB-INF)
• Declare the filter in the web.xml (see the instruction)
• “Port” your rewrite rules to the urlrewrite.xml file
• repackage and deploy the war (or deploy it as an exploded archive)