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Action url form not relative

           Summary: Action url form not relative
           Product: Struts
           Version: 1.1 Beta 3
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Other
         Component: Custom Tags
        AssignedTo: struts-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: phcollignon@email.com


Hello,

This bug has been reported in the mailing list
but is not in the bug database and has not been
corrected yet.
I modify struts 1.1b3 source code to correct
this bug.  I can send you my version.


Thanks.

> Hello!
> 
> I have the following interesting problem with Struts 1.0.2 running under
> Tomcat 4.0.4 and Apache combo.  I would like to specify relative
> actions in the html:form tags.  The problem now is that html:form
> tag converts action attributes into absolute paths, for example
> if I specify action="search.do" in html:form tags, the
> resulting HTML page contains <form action="/myapp/search.do">
> tag, where it gets /myapp prefix by always unconditionally making
> a call to request.getContextPath().  Well, in my case this is not
> working, because due to the use of Apache ProxyPass statements,
> URLs of the pages do not correspond to Tomcat ContextPaths.  
> Specifically, my JSP files are located in /webapps/superapp/subdir
> directory, through the magic of the following ProxyPass statements:
> 
> ProxyPass         /subdir         http://localhost:8080/superapp/subdir
> ProxyPassReverse  /subdir         http://localhost:8080/superapp/subdir
> 
> I can access my pages by going to http://<myhost>/subdir/page.jsp
> and my actions as http://<myhost>/subdir/action.do.  But because
> html:form tag generates a link to /superapp/subdir/action.do my
> forms cannot access the action at all, resulting in Apache's 404
> result.  
> 
> Any ideas will be much appreciated!  It there a way to handle this
> type of situation, when Apache URLs do not correspond to
> Tomcat ContextPath URLs?  I'm getting a bit desperate here ;^)
>

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