Configuring redirects in CUBA to hide the 404 error

[sharifullin_a (Artem Sharifullin)]

Could you please advise how to set up URL redirection in CUBA from http://localhost:8080/ to http://localhost:8080/demo/ ? My goal is to redirect users from the base URL / to /${webContextName}/ so that they do not encounter a 404 - Not Found error page.

Currently, attempting to access the application root without the context, such as http://localhost:8080/ , results in a 404 error. I need users to be automatically redirected to http://localhost:8080/demo/ or a similar URL containing the web context name.

[albudarov (Alexander Budarov)]

It can be performed by means of Tomcat.
Deploy a separate “ROOT” web application to Tomcat and put instructions there to perform a redirect.

Examples with a JSP page:

Tomcat ROOT webapp: Proper redirection | Chris Schenk

Apache Tomcat : Default Redirect

[sharifullin_a (Artem Sharifullin)]

Yes, I know how to implement this using Tomcat, but it is not used in my project, so I wanted to solve this issue directly through CUBA itself.

[albudarov (Alexander Budarov)]

If CUBA application in your case is assembled into one web application “demo”, then it doesn’t have any control over requests to other web applications, outside of its /demo context. So it’s not possible to configure redirect through CUBA in this configuration.