[JS2-681] Login portlet doesn't run in Tomcat ROOT context

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.2
• Component/s: Admin Portlets
• Environment: JDK 1.6, Tomcat 5.5, Linux Ubuntu 6.10
• Assignee: Ate Douma
• Reporter: Enrique Ruiz (DiSiD Corporation S.L.)
• Created: 17/Apr/07 11:41
• Updated: 04/Oct/11 21:37
• Resolved: 18/Jun/07 13:56

Description

We have changed the application context of a Jetspeed 2 portal from "/${artifactId}" to "/". Doing that, the Jetspeed portal runs perfectly but the Login portlet fails. The portal throws the following exception:

javax.portlet.PortletException
at org.apache.jetspeed.dispatcher.JetspeedRequestDispatcher.include(JetspeedRequestDispatcher.java:102)
at org.apache.portals.bridges.common.GenericServletPortlet.doView(GenericServletPortlet.java:363)
at javax.portlet.GenericPortlet.doDispatch(GenericPortlet.java:247)
......
Caused by: javax.servlet.ServletException: In URL tags, when the "context" attribute is specified, values of both "context" and "url" must start with "/".

The problem is that the "context" attribute of the "<c:url />" tag cannot have an empty value. The empty value is returned by the "${requestContext.request.contextPath}" expression (see the Servlet API::HttpServletRequest.getContextPath() to know the reason).

We have attached a patch that fix this bug. In addition to this patch, the JSTL API and implementation must be upgraded to jstl-1.1.1.jar and standard-1.1.2.jar.

Regards.