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When a context-relative URL in the form action is used (i.e. an URL without a domain part and without a leading slash /), then it is relative to the last context of the current request URL.

When a page which is requested by http://example.com/webapp/ControllerServlet and contains the following form action:

<form action="ControllerServlet/action">

Then the absolute action URL will be http://example.com/webapp/ControllerServlet/ControllerServlet/action. To fix this, you need to ensure that the form action URL is in a correct manner relative to the request URL. For a page which is requested by http://example.com/webapp/ControllerServlet/action there are several ways, depending on the ways how you can request the same page.

Either

<form action="action">

..which is relative to the last context in the request URL, or

<form action="/webapp/ControllerServlet/action">

..which is relative to the domain root, or

<form action="../ControllerServlet/action">

..which is relative to the context before the last context in the URL (it will effectively remove /ControllerServlet from the current request URL and append it again -a bit pointless indeed, but useful if you have more servlets in the context), or

<form action="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/ControllerServlet/action">

..which is relative to the domain root (useful when you don't want to hardcode the webapp's context path), or

<head>
    <base href="${pageContext.request.contextPath}">
    ...
</head>
<body>
    <form action="ControllerServlet/action">
    ...
</body>

..which would apply to all links and forms.

All of above will point to http://example.com/webapp/ControllerServlet/action.

BalusC 2010-04-14 12:05:10

Im def going to go try to fix this, i think I may have made alot of really simple errors. Thanks Alot!

CitadelCSAlum 2010-04-16 06:56:30

Awesome, It worked perfectly, Thank you so much!

CitadelCSAlum 2010-04-16 07:03:58

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