http://bleaklow.com:80/tags/urlrewrite/ My opinions may be incorrect, but they are my own en Alan Burlison Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:50:00 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://bleaklow.com/images/misc/logo.gif http://bleaklow.com:80/ http://bleaklow.com:80/2010/06/02/mod_rewrite_equivalent_for_tomcat.html <p> I've migrated and merged my old blogs.sun.com and bleaklow.com blogs into this new one, using <a href="http://pebble.sourceforge.net/">Pebble</a>. As a result, there are a number of links out there on the interwebs to bleaklow.com that are now broken, as everything has moved around - google's <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/">webmaster tools</a> gives me a comprehensive list. If I was hosting this blog using <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">Apache</a>, the standard solution would be to use the most excellent <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod-rewrite</a> Apache module to redirect the broken links to somewhere appropriate. However Pebble is a <a href="http://java.sun.com/javaee/">J2EE</a> application and uses <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/">Tomcat</a> instead of Apache. I've been looking for an equivalent to mod-rewrite for a while and never managed to find anything. Whilst looking for something else entirely (always the way) I found <a href="http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/">Url Rewrite Filter</a>. This is functional equivalent to mod-rewrite for J2EE servers, and offers most of the same features as mod-rewrite. I'm using it and it seems to do the job just fine, and the beta even has a mod-rewrite style configuration option, if you need a security blanket :-) </p> Web Tech Java http://bleaklow.com:80/2010/06/02/mod_rewrite_equivalent_for_tomcat.html#comments http://bleaklow.com:80/2010/06/02/mod_rewrite_equivalent_for_tomcat.html Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:15:00 GMT