Getting a 403 on root requests when using a ResourceHandler and custom handler in Jetty

Question

In (embedded) Jetty, I\'m trying to use a ResourceHandler to serve static files and a custom handler to respond to dynamic requests. Based on this page I have a setup that l

Answer 1

My solution:

• put MyHandler on a differnt context path than "/" e.g. "/index"
• use a rewrite rule to intercept calls to "/" and redirect them to "/index"

The code I use looks like this:

RewriteHandler rewriteHandler = new RewriteHandler();
rewriteHandler.setRewriteRequestURI(true);
rewriteHandler.setRewritePathInfo(false);
rewriteHandler.setOriginalPathAttribute("requestedPath");
RewriteRegexRule rewriteIndex = new RewriteRegexRule();
rewriteIndex.setRegex("^/$");
rewriteIndex.setReplacement("/index.html");
rewriteHandler.addRule(rewriteIndex);
rewriteHandler.setHandler(rootHandlerCollection);
server.setHandler(rewriteHandler);

The regex ensures to only match the exact path, so that "/whatever" is still first handled by the ResourceHandler.