Why wouldn't you want to create a redirect? For ex for apache you can use:
Redirect /servlet_app http://www.foo.com/servlet_app/servlet
hth
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>Subject: The "servlet" prefix
>Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:30:54 -0700
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>How do you get rid of the "servlet" prefix that Tomcat appends to every
>servlet URL? I have a web site that is currently using jserv, but we are
>upgrading the server and I want to move the site over to tomcat. However,
>tomcat's default behaviour is to stick the work "servlet" in the URL between
>the context name and the servlet being accessed. This breaks all my HREFs.
>Instead of rewritting all the HREFs on 50 pages, I want tomcat to not use a
>the "servlet" prefix. I have tracked this default behaviour down to a couple
>of lines in the server.xml file.
>
> <!-- Non-standard invoker, for backward compat. ( /servlet/* )
> You can modify the prefix that is matched by adjusting the
> "prefix" parameter below. Be sure your modified pattern
> starts and ends with a slash.
>
> NOTE: This prefix applies to *all* web applications that
> are running in this instance of Tomcat.
> -->
> <RequestInterceptor
> className="org.apache.tomcat.request.InvokerInterceptor"
> debug="0" prefix="/servlet/" />
>
>The problem is that when i remove this RequestInterceptor or make prefix=""
>or prefix="/" - i don't get access to the servlets and end up with a 404
>error. Has anyone seen this problem before? Can anyone help me?
>
>Thanks for taking the time to read this!
>
>Joe Krause
