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Asked: 2026-06-02T18:54:49+00:00

I am struggling with a webapp deployment in Jetty 6. Previously the the webapp

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I am struggling with a webapp deployment in Jetty 6. Previously the the webapp was deployed in /mywebapp and everytime I accessed http://localhost/mywebapp/ Jetty directed me to http://localhost/mywebapp/index.jsp.

When I change the contextPath to /, suddenly the redirect behaviour is broken. Instead, Jetty makes an internal forward request.

Does anyone have any input why this is happening? The DefaultServlet has the following settings:

<init-param>
  <param-name>dirAllowed</param-name>
  <param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
  <param-name>welcomeServlets</param-name>
  <param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
  <param-name>redirectWelcome</param-name>
  <param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Turns out it was not exactly the change of contextPath that made the redirects fail. Instead, I realized that simply the action of adding mywebapp.xml into $JETTY_HOME/contexts/ made Jetty not execute the redirects.

    I overcame this issue by deleting my context XML file, instead renaming $JETTY_HOME/webapps/mywebapp.war to $JETTY_HOME/webapps/root.war solved the issue.

    Unclear why this happened in the first place, but I’m happy things are back on track.

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