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From: "Torsten Curdt" <tcurdt@dff.st>
To: <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>,
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Subject: RE: Mapping URL->Servlet
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:42:15 +0200
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> How can I map an arbitrary URL (that may be outside
> of any particular "servlet context") to a particular
> servlet?
> 
> I'm especially interested in Tomcat as a servlet
> container for Apache.  I've tried using my old friend
> mod_rewrite, but it seems to confuse mod_jserv.
> (Which tries to use the original URL, rather than
> the rewritten one.)  Other posters seem to have
> tinkered with <servlet-mapping>/<url-pattern>
> with little luck.
> 
> Does _anyone_ here know how to do this?

Hm.. I guess I don't really understand what you
are up to... Is this what you want?

You have http:/somehost/mapping but you want
http:/somehost/something.html to be rewritten
to http:/somehost/mapping/something.html?
--
Torsten