JSF redirect via commandButton

Question

I cannot redirect to another page if the code is like this:

Answer 1

The <h:commandButton type="button"> doesn't generate a submit button. It just generates a "dead" button without any effects, purely intented to be used for custom onclick="..." scripts and like. This is somewhat a leftover of the dark JSF 1.0/1.1 era, when it wasn't nicely possible to just use plain vanilla HTML in JSF for this kind of things.

The <f:ajax> performs the submit by ajax powers through JSF-generated onclick. It doesn't care about the button's type.

Essentially, removing type="button" and relying on its default type="submit" should fix your problem.

<h:commandButton value="Enter" action="index?faces-redirect=true" />

However, all with all, if this is the real code and you don't actually intend to invoke a bean action, then you're going in completely the wrong direction as to implementing the functional requirement of navigating to a different page by a button. You should be using <h:button> instead.

<h:button value="Enter" outcome="index" />

See also:

• Difference between h:button and h:commandButton
• How to navigate in JSF? How to make URL reflect current page (and not previous one)