Help needed in integrating UrlRewritingFilter with Struts 2.X & tiles
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vivek
May 8, 2012, 5:35:19 AM5/8/12
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Dear Tech geeks,
Greetings of the day.
First of all heartiest accolades for such a great utility from this
newbie. This utility shall allow me exactly what i am trying to
achieve. However as of now i am unable to set up the UrlRewriteFilter
with my application.
I am running an web application on Tomcat (for testing) & WebSpehere
(for Production). The application is made on Struts 2.1.6 framework &
have integration with tiles 2.1.2.
The concern i am having is that i wish to rewrite the following url
<b>http://localhost:8080/myapp/musicLink.action</b>
to
<b>http://localhost:8080/myapp/music</b>
And
url <b>http://localhost:8080/myapp/musicLink.action?
param1=1212¶m2=1313¶m3=1414</b>
to
<b>http://localhost:8080/myapp/music/1212/1313/1414</b>
Below is my web.xml configuration
<code>
<listener>
<listener-class>com.ibm.vas.controller.impl.StartupListener</
listener-class>
</listener>
<context-param>
<param-
name>org.apache.tiles.impl.BasicTilesContainer.DEFINITIONS_CONFIG</
param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<filter>
<filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter</
filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>logLevel</param-name>
<param-value>sysout:DEBUG</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter>
<filter-name>struts-prepare</filter-name>
<filter-
class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareFilter</
filter-class>
</filter>
<filter>
<filter-name>struts-execute</filter-name>
<filter-
class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsExecuteFilter</
filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>struts-prepare</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>struts-execute</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.apache.struts2.tiles.StrutsTilesListener</
listener-class>
</listener>
</code>
My Urlrewrite Configuration
<code>
<urlrewrite>
<rule>
<from>^/music/([a-z0-9]+)/([a-z0-9]+)/([a-z0-9]+)$</from>
<to>/musicLink.action\?param1=$1&param2=$2&param3=$3</to>
</rule>
<outbound-rule>
<from>^/musicLink\.action\?param1=([a-z0-9]+)&param2=([a-
z0-9]+)&param3=([a-z0-9]+)$</from>
<to>/music/$1/$2/$3</to>
</outbound-rule>
</urlrewrite>
</code>
My Struts.xml Configuration
<code>
<struts>
<constant name="struts.action.extension" value="action" />
<package name="default" extends="struts-default">
<result-types>
<result-type name="tiles"
class="org.apache.struts2.views.tiles.TilesResult" />
</result-types>
<action name="musicLink" class="com.controller.MusicAction">
<result name="success" type="tiles">/music.tiles</result>
</action>
</code>
Can anyone please throw some light upon where am i doing wrong in this
following configuration or why am i unable to acheive my desired
rewritten url.
Any help in this regard shall be highly appreciated.
Kindly respond. Looking forward to read from you very soon.
Thanks & Regards
Vivek J
Greetings of the day.
First of all heartiest accolades for such a great utility from this
newbie. This utility shall allow me exactly what i am trying to
achieve. However as of now i am unable to set up the UrlRewriteFilter
with my application.
I am running an web application on Tomcat (for testing) & WebSpehere
(for Production). The application is made on Struts 2.1.6 framework &
have integration with tiles 2.1.2.
The concern i am having is that i wish to rewrite the following url
<b>http://localhost:8080/myapp/musicLink.action</b>
to
<b>http://localhost:8080/myapp/music</b>
And
url <b>http://localhost:8080/myapp/musicLink.action?
param1=1212¶m2=1313¶m3=1414</b>
to
<b>http://localhost:8080/myapp/music/1212/1313/1414</b>
Below is my web.xml configuration
<code>
<listener>
<listener-class>com.ibm.vas.controller.impl.StartupListener</
listener-class>
</listener>
<context-param>
<param-
name>org.apache.tiles.impl.BasicTilesContainer.DEFINITIONS_CONFIG</
param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<filter>
<filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter</
filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>logLevel</param-name>
<param-value>sysout:DEBUG</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter>
<filter-name>struts-prepare</filter-name>
<filter-
class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareFilter</
filter-class>
</filter>
<filter>
<filter-name>struts-execute</filter-name>
<filter-
class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsExecuteFilter</
filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>struts-prepare</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>struts-execute</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.apache.struts2.tiles.StrutsTilesListener</
listener-class>
</listener>
</code>
My Urlrewrite Configuration
<code>
<urlrewrite>
<rule>
<from>^/music/([a-z0-9]+)/([a-z0-9]+)/([a-z0-9]+)$</from>
<to>/musicLink.action\?param1=$1&param2=$2&param3=$3</to>
</rule>
<outbound-rule>
<from>^/musicLink\.action\?param1=([a-z0-9]+)&param2=([a-
z0-9]+)&param3=([a-z0-9]+)$</from>
<to>/music/$1/$2/$3</to>
</outbound-rule>
</urlrewrite>
</code>
My Struts.xml Configuration
<code>
<struts>
<constant name="struts.action.extension" value="action" />
<package name="default" extends="struts-default">
<result-types>
<result-type name="tiles"
class="org.apache.struts2.views.tiles.TilesResult" />
</result-types>
<action name="musicLink" class="com.controller.MusicAction">
<result name="success" type="tiles">/music.tiles</result>
</action>
</code>
Can anyone please throw some light upon where am i doing wrong in this
following configuration or why am i unable to acheive my desired
rewritten url.
Any help in this regard shall be highly appreciated.
Kindly respond. Looking forward to read from you very soon.
Thanks & Regards
Vivek J
Wim De Smet
May 10, 2012, 4:27:22 AM5/10/12
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Hi,
Could you try enabling debug logging and having a look at what is
actually going wrong? Are URLs not being rewritten, is struts handling
the results wrongly, are outbound URLs not working? It's quite hard to
just tell from the configuration what might or might not be the
problem...
regards,
Wim
Could you try enabling debug logging and having a look at what is
actually going wrong? Are URLs not being rewritten, is struts handling
the results wrongly, are outbound URLs not working? It's quite hard to
just tell from the configuration what might or might not be the
problem...
regards,
Wim
vivek
May 14, 2012, 6:03:19 AM5/14/12
to UrlRewrite
Hi,
As per the Wim's statement & some more changes made, now i am able to
rewrite the url's with same configuration however i am in a great fix
now as the context root of my application is changed for all resources
like jsp's, Js, css etc...
Here is my current configuration
<urlrewrite use-query-string="true">
<rule>
<from>^/music/hindi$</from>
<to>/musicLink.action?param1=212001001&param2=212001001001</to>
</rule>
</urlrewrite>
There are no outbound rules written bcoz as of now i just want to
redirect the address bar url to application specific Url not vice
versa.
I have tried with the below code but nothing works
<rule>
<from>\.(bmp|gif|jpeg|jpg|png|css|js|jsp|txt|pdf|doc|xls|xml|htm|html|
swf)$</from>
<to last="true">/$1</to>
</rule>
and
<rule match-type="regex">
<from>^/(css|html|images|js|pages|tiles|manifest)/(.*)</from>
<to last="true">/$1</to>
</rule>
Neither of this approach worked for me.
As per the Wim's statement & some more changes made, now i am able to
rewrite the url's with same configuration however i am in a great fix
now as the context root of my application is changed for all resources
like jsp's, Js, css etc...
Here is my current configuration
<urlrewrite use-query-string="true">
<rule>
<from>^/music/hindi$</from>
<to>/musicLink.action?param1=212001001&param2=212001001001</to>
</rule>
</urlrewrite>
There are no outbound rules written bcoz as of now i just want to
redirect the address bar url to application specific Url not vice
versa.
I have tried with the below code but nothing works
<rule>
<from>\.(bmp|gif|jpeg|jpg|png|css|js|jsp|txt|pdf|doc|xls|xml|htm|html|
swf)$</from>
<to last="true">/$1</to>
</rule>
and
<rule match-type="regex">
<from>^/(css|html|images|js|pages|tiles|manifest)/(.*)</from>
<to last="true">/$1</to>
</rule>
Neither of this approach worked for me.
Wim De Smet
May 14, 2012, 8:33:54 AM5/14/12
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On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:03 PM, vivek <er.jadi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As per the Wim's statement & some more changes made, now i am able to
> rewrite the url's with same configuration however i am in a great fix
> now as the context root of my application is changed for all resources
> like jsp's, Js, css etc...
>
> Here is my current configuration
> <urlrewrite use-query-string="true">
> <rule>
> <from>^/music/hindi$</from>
> <to>/musicLink.action?param1=212001001&param2=212001001001</to>
> </rule>
> </urlrewrite>
I assume this works?
> Hi,
>
> As per the Wim's statement & some more changes made, now i am able to
> rewrite the url's with same configuration however i am in a great fix
> now as the context root of my application is changed for all resources
> like jsp's, Js, css etc...
>
> Here is my current configuration
> <urlrewrite use-query-string="true">
> <rule>
> <from>^/music/hindi$</from>
> <to>/musicLink.action?param1=212001001&param2=212001001001</to>
> </rule>
> </urlrewrite>
> There are no outbound rules written bcoz as of now i just want to
> redirect the address bar url to application specific Url not vice
> versa.
> I have tried with the below code but nothing works
>
> <rule>
> <from>\.(bmp|gif|jpeg|jpg|png|css|js|jsp|txt|pdf|doc|xls|xml|htm|html|
> swf)$</from>
> <to last="true">/$1</to>
> </rule>
example .bmp to the URL /bmp (that would become /yourcontext/bmp if
you're not in the root context). If you want to extract anything else
from the URL you should try to match it in the regex specifically. Or
use conditions.
> and
>
> <rule match-type="regex">
> <from>^/(css|html|images|js|pages|tiles|manifest)/(.*)</from>
> <to last="true">/$1</to>
> </rule>
what you want. Maybe you should give some background on what you are
trying to do?
Regards,
Wim
Wim De Smet
May 14, 2012, 9:24:49 AM5/14/12
to UrlRewrite
Hi,
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:56 PM, vivek <er.jadi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> @wim Thanks for replying. I really appreciate the pain you are taking
> for helping me out.
>
> Well here is some extra input to understand my concern
>
> I have a url like http://www.abc.com/myApp/music/hindi/newarrivals
> As soon as this url is fired from the browser i wish to get this url
> redirected to
> http://www.abc.com/myApp/musicLink.action?param1=112233&param2=11223344
>
You indeed don't need to include query string for this, just make sure
to not terminate too soon, i.e. your rule:
<from>^/music/hindi$</from>
Should be
<from>^/music/hindi</from>
or
<from>^/music/hindi/newarrivals$</from>
Be aware that if you have both, only the first would match, since you
rewrite right after.
> The redirection happens perfectly but when it encounters any other
> resource like images, js, css which have relative paths in application
> it changes the context.
With the configuration as above, I simply don't see why this could be.
Are you sure tiles is encoding the URLs on the pages correctly? Is
there perhaps an outbound-rule you forgot about?
> First thing is the rule is appending the parameters for all requests
> (including static resources).
> May be this is because of setting use-query-string="true", but as soon
> as i remove this clause the code stops working.
It is probably because your urlrewritefilter is listening on FORWARD
and firing twice. Remove the mapping to the FORWARD dispatcher (for
urlrewritefilter, not the other ones).
> Also at the same time the the call that ought to be mpApp/tiles/
> base.jsp
> gets converted to music/tiles/base.jsp?
> param1=112233&param2=11223344
I honestly don't see that in the inbound rules you gave, and since
there are not supposed to be any outbound rules, it should just work.
regards,
Wim
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:56 PM, vivek <er.jadi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> @wim Thanks for replying. I really appreciate the pain you are taking
> for helping me out.
>
> Well here is some extra input to understand my concern
>
> I have a url like http://www.abc.com/myApp/music/hindi/newarrivals
> As soon as this url is fired from the browser i wish to get this url
> redirected to
> http://www.abc.com/myApp/musicLink.action?param1=112233&param2=11223344
>
You indeed don't need to include query string for this, just make sure
to not terminate too soon, i.e. your rule:
<from>^/music/hindi$</from>
Should be
<from>^/music/hindi</from>
or
<from>^/music/hindi/newarrivals$</from>
Be aware that if you have both, only the first would match, since you
rewrite right after.
> The redirection happens perfectly but when it encounters any other
> resource like images, js, css which have relative paths in application
> it changes the context.
With the configuration as above, I simply don't see why this could be.
Are you sure tiles is encoding the URLs on the pages correctly? Is
there perhaps an outbound-rule you forgot about?
> First thing is the rule is appending the parameters for all requests
> (including static resources).
> May be this is because of setting use-query-string="true", but as soon
> as i remove this clause the code stops working.
It is probably because your urlrewritefilter is listening on FORWARD
and firing twice. Remove the mapping to the FORWARD dispatcher (for
urlrewritefilter, not the other ones).
> Also at the same time the the call that ought to be mpApp/tiles/
> base.jsp
> gets converted to music/tiles/base.jsp?
> param1=112233&param2=11223344
I honestly don't see that in the inbound rules you gave, and since
there are not supposed to be any outbound rules, it should just work.
regards,
Wim
vivek
May 14, 2012, 9:50:14 AM5/14/12
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Dear Wim,
I had removed the query string for this.
I have a concern though, lets say i have a url at my browser like http://www.abc.com/myApp/music/hindi/newarrivals/pop which will match with the rule
<rule>
<from>^/music/hindi/newarrivals/pop$</from>
<to>/musicLink.action?param1=111111&param2=22222&param3=33333</to>
</rule>
then how am i suppose to match this Url http://www.abc.com/myApp/music/hindi or http://www.abc.com/myApp/music/hindi/newarrivals
as the results yielded by these Url's will be entirely different from each other.
Also I had removed the UrlConfig to listen at Forward from web.xml.
Regarding Url Encoding at tiles i would like to share this info that the resources are included in header like
<link href="page_resource/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="page_resource/js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
The log traces are attached with this email for more information
Thanks
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vivek
May 15, 2012, 10:30:30 AM5/15/12
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Hi guys,
Kindly respond.
Thanks
On May 14, 6:50 pm, vivek <er.jadiyavi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Wim,
>
> I had removed the query string for this.
> I have a concern though, lets say i have a url at my browser like *http://www.abc.com/myApp/music/hindi/newarrivals/pop*which will match with
> or **http://www.abc.com/myApp/music/hindi/newarrivals*
> />
> *
> *<script type="text/javascript"
> src="page_resource/js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>*
> logs.txt
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Kindly respond.
Thanks
On May 14, 6:50 pm, vivek <er.jadiyavi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Wim,
>
> I had removed the query string for this.
> the rule
> <rule>
> <from>^/music/hindi/newarrivals/pop$</from>
> <to>/musicLink.action?param1=111111&param2=22222&param3=33333</to>
> </rule>
> then how am i suppose to match this Url *http://www.abc.com/myApp/music/hindi
> <rule>
> <from>^/music/hindi/newarrivals/pop$</from>
> <to>/musicLink.action?param1=111111&param2=22222&param3=33333</to>
> </rule>
> or **http://www.abc.com/myApp/music/hindi/newarrivals*
> as the results yielded by these Url's will be entirely different from each
> other.
>
> Also I had removed the UrlConfig to listen at Forward from web.xml.
>
> Regarding Url Encoding at tiles i would like to share this info that the
> resources are included in header like
>
> *<link href="page_resource/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
> other.
>
> Also I had removed the UrlConfig to listen at Forward from web.xml.
>
> Regarding Url Encoding at tiles i would like to share this info that the
> resources are included in header like
>
> />
> *
> *<script type="text/javascript"
> src="page_resource/js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>*
>
> The log traces are attached with this email for more information
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, May 14, 2012 6:54:49 PM UTC+5:30, Wim De Smet wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> The log traces are attached with this email for more information
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, May 14, 2012 6:54:49 PM UTC+5:30, Wim De Smet wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:56 PM, vivek <er.jadiyavi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > @wim Thanks for replying. I really appreciate the pain you are taking
> > > for helping me out.
>
> > > Well here is some extra input to understand my concern
>
> > > I have a url likehttp://www.abc.com/myApp/music/hindi/newarrivals
> > > @wim Thanks for replying. I really appreciate the pain you are taking
> > > for helping me out.
>
> > > Well here is some extra input to understand my concern
>
> > > As soon as this url is fired from the browser i wish to get this url
> > > redirected to
>
> >http://www.abc.com/myApp/musicLink.action?param1=112233¶m2=11...<http://www.abc.com/myApp/musicLink.action?param1=112233¶m2=11223344>
> > > redirected to
>
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