Deploying Struts2 Application without ContextPath

Question

I've got a struts2 application running under a contextpath "/path" on my local tomcat without problems. When I deploy it on a webserver (using a proxy to redirect from "http://www.domain.com" to "myserver:8080/path/") Struts does all kinds of strange things.

First, it includes the context in -tags. That can be turned off by an attribute. But sadly, it also includes the path in the action attributes of my forms, so a login form points to "http://www.domain.com/path/login.action" instead of "http://www.domain.com/login.action" ...

Is there a possibility so somehow change the default context that is added here or turn this off for forms? (I'd like to keep the -tags, only way round seems to be to use default HTML forms.) Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I found that others also had the problem, but the framework makers don't seem to think that this is an issue. My solutions:

• use includeContext="false" in all s:url-tags
• instead of the s:form tag, use a usual form, set the action to "actionname.action" and include a simple table with tablerows () for each field. You still can use s:textfield and such.
• sadly HTTP sessions won't work anymore as they get set for the path "/path" (the ApplicationPath). This is due to the cookie that saves the JSESSIONID being set to /path. This means that your visitors will only get session variables stored when they're at http://www.domain.com/path/login.action and that those will be lost when they get redirected back to http://www.domain.com/interestingstuff.action ... my solution is a hack that requires setting the JSESSIONID cookie clientside via JavaScript as described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3389235/struts2-session-problem-after-reverse-proxy

Hope this helps someone ... if you find nicer solutions, please let me know. :-)