Question

I have an enterprise application written in JAVA with JSF (using RichFaces 3.3). Currently my URL looks like this:

http://localhost/WebApplication/faces/folder1/page.jsp

Question is how do I mask my url to make it like this:

http://localhost/folder1/page.jps

Basically i want to hide ‘Application/faces/’

Thanks

Answer 1

For rewriting URLs within your application you can use UrlRewrite. However, in this case it looks like you want to remove your web application’s context path, in which case you have two options:

1. deploy your application to the context path / (how is application server-specific)
2. run Apache on port 80 and use mod_proxy to proxy certain URLs to your application server running on a different port, using configuration something like the following.

Apache config:

<Proxy http://localhost:8080/*>     Order Allow,Deny     Allow From All </Proxy>  ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/WebApplication/ ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/WebApplication/