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need to redirect from html to servlet or jsp

I am going to try to explain this problem.
I have this site that uses apache 2 and tomcat and uses a connector between the two. Apache serves up my static pages and my images.

my site has a bunch of users with their own sites and doc roots.
for example.
http://www.mydomain.com/kam
http://www.mydomain.com/sue
http://www.mydomain.com/fred

i have lots of users.
in order to distribute the directories alittle and not have 1000's of users all under one directory i do mod-rewrite with apache.
for example

http://www.mydomain.com/kam
the doc root is /home/docroot/k/kam
http://www.mydomain.com/fred
the doc root is /home/docroot/f/fred

So hopefully you see the pattern.

one more note, apache understands the mod-rewrite, but tomcat obviously does not.

so here is my problem

in the frames world i do the following (this would be the index.html in /home/docroot/k/kam/index.html
and they would get to it by http://www.mydomain.com/kam

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=Expires CONTENT="Tue, 04 Dec 1993 21:29:02 GMT">
<TITLE>kam 's Page</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0 FRAMEBORDER=NO BORDER=0 ROWS="100%,0">
<FRAME NORESIZE SCROLLING="auto" NAME="title" MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0 NORESIZE SRC="/servlet/publicServlet?method=showMembersPage&id=965&lang=0" TARGET=_top>
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>

So i want to get rid of the frames.

so what i have working now is in my index.html
<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=Expires CONTENT="Tue, 04 Dec 1993 21:29:02 GMT">
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=/servlet/publicServlet?method=showMembersPage&id=965&lang=0">
</head>
</html>

i was going to have an index.jsp but that would mess up everyones URLS because instead of
http://www.mydomain.com/kam(implied /index.jsp)
they would have to do because tomcat does not recognize the mod_rewrite.
http://www.mydomain.com/k/kam

So what i am asking is for a more elegant solution, if there is one.

I hope this makes sense

girionis

You can still use a JSP if you redirect from the original index.html to a index.jsp. In your /home/docroot/k/kam/index.html you could have something like

<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.mydomain.com/kam/index.jsp">

and the index.jsp should be the page without farmes.

paries

ASKER

thats,
actually the index.jsp would do a couple of env checks and call
/servlet/publicServlet?method=showMembersPage&id=965&lang=0, just like index.html

so i guess what you are saying is that the meta refresh is really the only option

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