Use relative path for form actions in JSP

Question

How to use relative path in form action

<form action="/myapp/alterPassword" id="changepassword" method="post"
        autocomplete="off" onsubmit="return checkPassword();">
        <div
            style="display: block; position: absolute; top: 15%; left: 35%; width: 480px;">

In the above code is there any way to use relative path instead of the myapp/alterPassword ?

Solution 1

You can just dynamically print the context path as follows:

<form action="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/alterPassword" ...>

Or use the HTML <base> tag so that all relative links in the page are relative to it.

See also:

• Browser can't access/find relative resources like CSS, images and links when calling a Servlet which forwards to a JSP

Solution 2

You can use ../ or use context path as follows

<form action="/<%=request.getContextPath()%>/alterPassword" id="changepassword" method="post"
        autocomplete="off" onsubmit="return checkPassword();">

Comments

[Chen Ni]

Thank you so much! After trying out a lot of different things this finally worked for me.