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Asked: 2026-06-17T05:20:38+00:00

when i try to redirect my servlet to error page error.jsp using response.sendRedirect(/error.jsp) it

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when i try to redirect my servlet to error page "error.jsp" using response.sendRedirect("/error.jsp") it shows page not found error but when i change it to response.sendRedirect(“error.jsp”), it works fine!

why is it so? why is relative path not working? error.jsp is saved in WEB-CONTENT folder.
The dispatcher.foreward(request,response), works fine with relative url “/page01.jsp”, even though both page01.jsp and error.jsp are in same directory WEB-CONTENT.
please explain.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you pass a String starting with ‘/’ to HttpServletResponse#sendRedirect the path will be relative to the server and not your application. So, you should pass something like this to get this working:

    response.sendRedirect("/myapp/error.jsp");

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