ShortViewURLConstructor replaces the Wiki.jsp page with a servlet at the /wiki/ servlet. This allows you to have URLs of the form http://www.example.com/JSPWiki/wiki/PageName, which can be useful in many ways.

ShortViewURLConstructor will attempt to guess your wiki location from your jspwiki.baseURL -setting, but if it gets it wrong, you can use the jspwiki.shortURLConstructor.prefix -setting to point at a different location.

Troubleshooting#

If you get a 404 error when you're using this, check that your web.xml contains the following lines:

   <servlet>
       <servlet-name>WikiServlet</servlet-name>
       <servlet-class>com.ecyrd.jspwiki.WikiServlet</servlet-class>       
   </servlet>

   <servlet-mapping>
       <servlet-name>WikiServlet</servlet-name>
       <url-pattern>/wiki/*</url-pattern>
   </servlet-mapping>

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