Page Redirection with Seam Navigation

[trickyvail]

I would like to use JSF or Seam navigation rules to redirect page requests. This would avoid having to update all the other pages' references when a page changes location. I've tried variations of the following configuration:

FILE: /real/location/actual_page.page.xml
<!DOCTYPE
 page PUBLIC "-//JBoss/Seam Pages Configuration DTD 1.1//EN"
 "http://jboss.com/products/seam/pages-1.1.dtd"
>
<page view-id="/imaginary/location/virtual_page.xhtml">
 <navigation>
 <rule>
 <redirect view-id="/real/location/actual_page.xhtml"/>
 </rule>
 </navigation>
</page>

But with no success. Sometimes I can get a 403 Error: Access to the requested resource has been denied, but more often I recieve a 404 Error: Resource not found. I have not created any access restrictions on the target file.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated, especially if someone knows a resource for instructiuons / examples of Seam navigation.

[gavin.king]

You need to specify a page action for this to work.

[trickyvail]

Thank you Gavin, that was the piece of the puzzle I was missing.

My final configuration in WEB-INF/pages.xml looks like:

<page view-id="/virtual/path/to/alias_file.xhtml" action="">
 <navigation>
 <rule>
 <render view-id="/real/path/to/real_file.xhtml"/>
 <!-- or redirect -->
 </rule>
 </navigation>
</page>

When you create a granular configuration file like [page_name].page.xml the view-id attribute does not seem to have any effect. The view-id appears to be determined by the path and filename of the [page_name].pages.xml file. I presume this is the expected behavior?

[gavin.king]

Yep, that is intended.