Redirecting a URL

You can specify that a request for an old URL be treated as a request for a new URL. This is called redirecting a URL.

To specify a redirected URL for a virtual server, use the redirect_n property, where n is a positive integer that allows specification of more than one. Each of these redirect_n properties is inherited by all web applications deployed on the virtual server.

The value of each redirect_n property has two components which can be specified in any order:

• The first component, from, specifies the prefix of the requested URI to match.

• The second component, url-prefix, specifies the new URL prefix to return to the client. The from prefix is replaced by this URL prefix.

Example 6–3 Redirecting a URL

This example redirects from dummy to etude:

<property name="redirect_1" value="from=/dummy url-prefix=http://etude"/>