I’m a newbie to tomcat. I’ve installed tomcat on my unix system using the tar.gz distribution. I want to redirect request to one(let’s say XYZ) of my webapis to other(let’s say ABC). So the request http://localhost:8080/XYZ/select?a=b should get redirected to http://localhost:8080/ABC/select?a=b.
I placed the urlrewrite-4.0.0.jar inside pathToTomcatExtractionFolder/lib folder

I edited the web.xml file present inside pathToTomcatExtractionFolder/conf/web.xml and added :

UrlRewriteFilter
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter

logLevel
WARN

UrlRewriteFilter
/*

I’ve placed urlrewrite.xml inside pathToTomcatExtractionFolder/conf/. and defined this rule inside it:

/XYZ/select?(.*)
/ABC/select?$1

After this I restarted the tomcat but even then when I call http://localhost:8080/XYZ/select?a=b in my browser, it’s not getting redirected.

Thanks

I am currently facing a url issue with a web application that I have installed on a server on my LAN.

The LAN is connected to the internet through a modem / router with a dynamic IP address. In order to access the web application from outside the LAN, I have configured a no-ip account and linked the no-ip dns to the server running the web application.

I can now access the application from a remote computer, but some functionalities do not work. In some cases, the application launches a new window and the url in that case has “192.168.1.4:8082″ as hostname. This is the local IP address of the server on the LAN, which is not known outside of the LAN. In order to work, it should be my no-ip dns.

On the forum of the web application I have been advised to use url rewriting to solve this problem, but I am not sure if it would work as I don’t even reach the web server. Could you advise me on this?

Thanks in advance.