Struts2 - Internal action forward gives 404

Question

I'm in the process of converting an old Struts1 app to Struts2.

I'm able to get through with some of the actions (such as login,logon,startApplication) successfully - by direct invocation from browser, but internal forwards it ends up with 404 (Not found). For example, when I try to use the browser, I'm able to go to setupMainPageContext.do, however when an existing action performs an internal forward (startApplication.do to setupMainPageContext.do).

Any thoughts?

<-- struts.xml -->
    <package name="user" namespace="/" extends="struts-default">    

        <action name="login" class="my.action.LoginAction">
            <result name="success">jsp/login.jsp</result>
            <result name="successMobile">jsp/login.jsp</result>                 
        </action>
        <action name="logon" class="my.action.LogonAction">
            <result name="success">jsp/sendJsonList.jsp</result>
            <result name="autologin">startApplication.do</result>
        </action>


        <action name="startApplication" class="my.action.controller.StartApplicationAction">
            <result name="success">jsp/startPage.jsp</result>
            <result name="successMobile">setupMainPageContext.do</result>
            <result name="successNoPlugin">setupMainPageContext.do</result>         
        </action>

        <action name="setupMainPageContext" class="my.controller.SetupMainPageContextAction">
            <result name="success">jsp/mainLayout.jsp</result>
        </action>


<!-- Maven Pom -->
<dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId>
        <artifactId>struts2-core</artifactId>
        <version>2.5.14.1</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
        <version>2.8.2</version>
    </dependency>

Forward from one action to the other gives a 404. So, going to startApplication.do, forward to the JSP works fine. But in the successMobile case, I end up with a 404 — user1147873, Dec 30 '17 at 15:57
it was a Login variation - if you come thru a mobile device, StartApplicationAction takes you to successMobile result. — user1147873, Dec 30 '17 at 17:10
I tried adding a type="chain" attribute in the result element. That gives **There is no Action mapped for namespace [/] and action name [startApplication.do] associated with context path** — user1147873, Dec 30 '17 at 17:15
I think I figured out, you cannot have the action extension (.do in my case). — user1147873, Dec 30 '17 at 17:38

Struts2 - Internal action forward gives 404

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