How to configure redirects Glassfish4 Maven Webapp - angularjs

Question

I am developing a WebApp using Glassfish 4. I have a REST backend, developed in JAVA using Jersey, and a AngularJS frontend. All this is contained in a MAVEN Jersey-Quickstart-Webapp.
Now, the problem I have is that when people query the URL for my app:
http://localhost:8080/MyApp/
It works fine, and sends the appropriate index.html to the user. However, if the user types a URL that 'should' be handled by my Apps routing, say like:
http://localhost:8080/MyApp/search
it gives a 404 error. However, this URL can be reached from within in the app if you start from the /MyApp/ route, because the index.html that is served with all the angularJS stuff is able to understand and control the routing.
Essentially the problem I face is that I need to set up the appropriate redirects for all the necessary places that should return the index.html.
So, when I hit any of the following URLs it should send the user the index.html, and let AngularJs figure out the routing
Eg.
http://localhost:8080/MyApp/search ----> index.html
http://localhost:8080/MyApp/results ----> index.html
http://localhost:8080/MyApp/browse ----> index.html
Unfortunately, I am probably being really thick here, but I don't know how to configure the server/webapp to do this. How do I go about doing this? I assume it is fairly obvious/trivial, but I'm pretty new to all this stuff, so go easy on me!
EDIT 1: I've had some good help about using a mod-rewrite or the UrlRewriteFilter but neither of these seems to work for Glassfish4 as far as I can see. Is there an equivalent out there for these that somebody might know of?

Answer 1

Log into glassfish In the Admin Console, expand the Configurations
node. Expand the server-config node. Ignore this step if you are
running a developer domain (a domain that does not have clustering
capability). Expand HTTP Service. Expand Virtual Servers. Click
server. On the Edit Virtual Server page, click the Add Property
button. In the Name column, type redirect_1.
If you are using Application Server 9.0, type
from=//myproduct1
url-prefix=/mywarname/mypages/products/myproduct1.jsp in the Value
column.
Note - The value of the you provide here needs to
match the value of the context root specified in the web.xml or
application.xml file.

Answer 2

As #Tunaki says, you need use an apache and use the mod_rewrite.
also, you can use UrlRewriteFilter thats allows you to rewrite URLs before they get to your code.
For that, you need add to your maven file the dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.tuckey</groupId>
<artifactId>urlrewritefilter</artifactId>
<version>4.0.3</version>
</dependency>
And add in your WEB-INF/web.xml file:
<filter>
<filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
Also, you have a big number of parameters specified in the documentation:
http://cdn.rawgit.com/paultuckey/urlrewritefilter/master/src/doc/manual/4.0/index.html#filterparams
http://localhost:8080/MyApp/search ----> search.html
http://localhost:8080/MyApp/results ----> results.html
http://localhost:8080/MyApp/browse ----> browse.html