URLRewrite help needed

[Duane Burchell <bu...@engsoc.org>]

Hello
I'm relatively new to using Tomcat, and need help with what (should be) an
easy task.  I've searched through the archives, but haven't found the
information I need.

I'm basically trying to do a mod_rewrite, but using tomcat (without apache
installed).  I've read up on the tuckey.org/urlrewrite, and this
filter seems to handle exactly what I want.  But I can't get it to work.

As I understand it, the steps would be :
1 ) Download the jar files and put them into a urlrewrite directory off
the WEB-INF directory.
2)  Alter the web.xml file to include this filter (using code straight
form the tuckey.org site)
3)  Alter the urlrewrite file to include the rules that I want (some basic
substitutions from google-searchable URLs ex.  /pageid/ ->  &pageid= )
4)  Restart tomcat.

However, as soon as I add the filter code into the web.xml file, all
requests return a 404 error (whether the request uses the filter or not).

This seems like such an easy task, but I can't get it to work.  If anybody
can please point out something I'm overlooking, I would appreciate it.

I'm using tomcat 4.1 on Win2K server.

Thanks,
Duane

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Re: URLRewrite help needed

[Duane Burchell <bu...@engsoc.org>]

I need to pay better attention to what I type.

> As I understand it, the steps would be :
> 1 ) Download the jar files and put them into a urlrewrite directory off
> the WEB-INF directory.

This should read :
1)  Download the jar files, which will extract into a lib subdirectory off
the WEB-INF directory.  The urlrewrite.xml and web.xml files are in the
WEB-INF directory.

Sorry.
- Duane

> 2)  Alter the web.xml file to include this filter (using code straight
> form the tuckey.org site)
> 3)  Alter the urlrewrite file to include the rules that I want (some basic
> substitutions from google-searchable URLs ex.  /pageid/ ->  &pageid= )
> 4)  Restart tomcat.
>
> However, as soon as I add the filter code into the web.xml file, all
> requests return a 404 error (whether the request uses the filter or not).
>
> This seems like such an easy task, but I can't get it to work.  If anybody
> can please point out something I'm overlooking, I would appreciate it.
>
> I'm using tomcat 4.1 on Win2K server.
>
> Thanks,
> Duane
k

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