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| Alternatively, you can make it non-permanent, in which case Jetty sends a 302 Http Status code along with the new URL.</p><p>In addition, as with any other context, you can configure a list of virtual hosts, meaning that this context responds only to requests to one of the listed host names.</p><p>Suppose you have a context deployed at <code class="literal">/foo</code>, but that now you want to deploy at the root context <code class="literal">/</code> instead.</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">First you reconfigure and redeploy the context on Jetty.</li><li class="listitem">Next you need a way to redirect all the browsers who have bookmarked <code class="literal">/foo</code> to the new path. |
| You create a new <a class="link" href="configuring-contexts.html" title="Chapter 5. Configuring Contexts">context xml</a> file in <code class="literal">{$jetty/.base}/webapps</code> and configure the <code class="literal">MovedContextHandler</code> to do the redirection from <code class="literal">/foo</code> to <code class="literal">/</code>.</li></ul></div><p>Below is an example. |
| This is a permanent redirection, which also preserves <code class="literal">pathinfo</code> and query strings on the redirect:</p><pre xmlns:jfetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.JavaSourceFetchExtension" xmlns:fetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.SourceFetchExtension" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0" xmlns:xslthl="http://xslthl.sf.net" xmlns:gcse="http://www.google.com" xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times"><code><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> |
| <!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure_9_0.dtd"> |
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| <Configure class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.MovedContextHandler"> |
| <Set name="contextPath">/foo</Set> |
| <Set name="newContextURL">/</Set> |
| <Set name="permanent">true</Set> |
| <Set name="discardPathInfo">false</Set> |
| <Set name="discardQuery">false</Set> |
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| <Set name="virtualHosts"> |
| <Array type="String"> |
| <Item>209.235.245.73</Item> |
| <Item>127.0.0.73</Item> |
| <Item>acme.org</Item> |
| <Item>www.acme.org</Item> |
| <Item>server.acme.org</Item> |
| </Array> |
| </Set> |
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