[opencms-dev] 301 permanent redirects in Tomcat - how to achieve

[Paul D. Bain]

At 07:27 PM 2/10/2005, Daniel Rhoden wrote:

>I am trying to migrate my site to OpenCMS without loosing its page rank.
>I have the situation that my existing site can run in parallel with the 
>new version statically exported from OpenCMS.
>(samedomain/oldfolder/samecontent.jsp --> 
>samedomain/newfolder/samecontent.jsp)
>
>I would like to use 301 redirects in hope that my Page Rank is not lost or 
>badly hurt. My plan is to choose one content section (4-10 pages in the 
>same folder) at a time and redirect them to their new folder location (and 
>new technology). I would probably space out the redirections every few 
>weeks or so.
>
>In an environment totally hosted by Tomcat, how does one accomplish a 301 
>permanent redirect? What is the equivalent of ".htaccess" in Tomcat?  Can 
>301 redirects be defined in web.xml somehow?

Daniel,

         The Tomcat users' mailing list might be a more appropriate forum 
for this sort of question.

Sincerely,
Paul Bain