javax.servlet.ServletException: Path loginLayout does not start with a "/" character
… its been a year and a half , i have used Struts.
A week back we got a project and we decided to use Struts 1.3.5 since Struts 2.0 is still in beta.
While i was trying forward response to a Tile forward instead of directly redirecting to a jsp , i got an exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Path loginLayout doesnot start with a “/” character
after googling for half an hour i got the solution
pre-requsite :
download Struts1.3.5-all.zip
Step 1. add chain-config.xml to WEB-INF folder inside your project
you can find this file in
/struts-1.3.5-all/struts-1.3.5/src/tiles/src
/main/resources/org/apache/struts/tiles
Step 2.
add the following init-param tag to Action Servlet configuration in web.xml
<init-param>
<param-name>chainConfig</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/chain-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
Step 3.
add commons-chain-1.1.jar to your project library.
this should solve the problem.
Thank you so much for this. I’ve read 4 books on struts and how come these additional setup was not mentioned. How did you figure it out?
Jon,
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i was just googling and somehow made it work for me.
btw
a hug for u (i saw the free-hugs video on ur website
Rajesh,
very good posting. Helped me a lot. Somehow my googling was not leading to this solution and I found ur posting, has precise solution for this problem.
Thanks again…
Abhishek
Rajesh,
What a precious finding! Thanks a lot for sharing! I have been spending hours to figure it out…
happy to know
Rajesh,
Thank you for this. All previous apps had been in struts 1.2 and below and we didnt’ have to do this. We implemented struts 1.3.5 and got this error. I wish I had seen your advice a few hours ago.
Jim