how to redirect in jsp using <jsp:forward> with a relative url

I'm trying to redirect from a page to another always use <jsp:forward page='/some_page.jsp' />or response.sendRedirect(/some_page.jsp)

but in this case I need to redirect to another page someting like home/try/page and I try to use <jsp:forward page='home/try/page' /> but it doesn't work some help?

Solution

<jsp:forward /> tag is intended for forwarding the request on to a relative url.

now you want to redirect your page here - 'home/try/page'. If your want to redirect from one directory to another directory page than try something like below -

 <jsp:forward page="/home/try/page.jsp"/>
 <jsp:forward page="../home/try/page.jsp"/>
 or
 <jsp:forward page="../../home/try/page.jsp"/>

"../" will get you out from the current folder.

For example - let assume we requested the following URL, -

http://localhost/myJSPApp/Security/login.jsp

When the file "login.jsp" executes it performs the following action

<jsp:forward page="../Welcome/Welcome.jsp" />

This is a forward to another JSP in another folder "Welcome" which is at the same level as the "Security" folder.

I hope it will help you.