Pretty faces redirect to root

Question

I'm using pretty faces 3.4.4. I want to redirect pages with following url:

www.domain.com/overview/overview.xhtml?target=my_param

to

www.domain.com/my_param

To achieve this I use this setting:

<url-mapping id="overview">
    <pattern value="/#{target}" />
    <view-id value="/overview/overview.xhtml"/>
</url-mapping>

which is working. But the issue is, that all the standard pages in root like aboutus, home and contact are not working any more! The content of this pages is overwritten with the content of the my_param page.

Can any one help to fix this? Thanks

Lincoln · Accepted Answer · 2023-04-12T14:57:57.063

You'll likely need to change the order of your rules in the <pretty-config> file. They are matched in order, and the issue here is that your mapping pattern is very general, and will match ALL possible pages at the top level of your domain:

<pattern value="/#{target}" />

To fix this, you need to add mappings for your other top-level pages, and they need to be above your general rule for handling "my_param" redirects:

<url-mapping id="home">
    <pattern value="/home" />
    <view-id value="/home/home.xhtml"/>
</url-mapping>

<url-mapping id="contact">
    <pattern value="/contact" />
    <view-id value="/contact/contact.xhtml"/>
</url-mapping>

<url-mapping id="overview">
    <pattern value="/#{target}" />
    <view-id value="/overview/overview.xhtml"/>
</url-mapping>

You haven't posted how you are issuing the redirect, which you said is working, but if you wanted to do that using PrettyFaces, you'd use something like this config:

<rewrite match="/overview/overview.xhtml?.*\btarget=(\w+)\b" substitute="/$1/" redirect="301" />

Though I would probably use OCPsoft Rewrite for this type of redirect instead, since you can make much more declarative & safe rules. (PrettyFaces is now built on Rewrite)

Pretty faces redirect to root

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