Action not forwaded to tiles-definition from forward path in Action - tiles

Question

My struts-config.xml has a few forward actions that point to tiles definitions. But it takes path as it is given & doesn't directed to the tiles-definition.xml & showing path does not start with a "/" character
My struts-config.xml is :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.1//EN" "http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd">
<struts-config>
<data-sources />
<form-beans >
<form-bean name="feelSafeForm" type="com.feelsafe.struts.form.FeelSafeForm" />
</form-beans>
<global-exceptions />
<global-forwards >
<forward name="login1" path="/feelSafe.do?do=login" />
<forward name="admin" path="/feelSafe.do?do=admin1" />
</global-forwards>
<action-mappings >
<action
attribute="feelSafeForm"
input="/index.jsp"
name="feelSafeForm"
parameter="do"
path="/feelSafe"
scope="request"
type="com.feelsafe1.struts.action.FeelSafeAction">
<forward name="adminmainpage" path="feelsafe.adminmainpage" />
<forward name="login" path="feelsafe.login" />
</action>
</action-mappings>
<message-resources parameter="com.feelsafe.struts.ApplicationResources" />
<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin">
<set-property property="definitions-parser-validate" value="true" />
<set-property property="moduleAware" value="true" />
<set-property property="definitions-config" value="/WEB-INF/tiles-definition.xml" />
</plug-in>
</struts-config>
tiles-definition.xml is :
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 1.1//EN"
"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_1_1.dtd">
<component-definitions>
<definition name="feelsafe.common" path="/feelsafeLayout/layout.jsp">
<put name="title" type="string" value="FeelSafe Hospital"/>
<put name="header1" value="/feelsafeLayout/header.jsp"/>
<put name="footer1" value="/feelsafeLayout/footer.jsp"/>
</definition>
<definition name="feelsafe.login" extends="feelsafe.common">
<put name="body1" value="/feelsafeJspFiles/login.jsp"/>
</definition>
<definition name="feelsafe.admin" extends="feelsafe.common">
<put name="body1" value="/feelsafeAdminJspFiles/adminlogin.jsp"/>
</definition>
</component-definitions>
When login is called, control goes to forward tag & gives 500 Error saying :
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: javax.servlet.ServletException:
javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Exception forwarding for name login1:
javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:
Path feelsafe.login does not start with a "/" character

Answer 1

I get the same error when i removed this snippet from init params of my action servlet in web.xml
...
<servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class>
...
<init-param>
<param-name>chainConfig</param-name>
<param-value>org/apache/struts/tiles/chain-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
So when you use an old version of dtd like 1.1 try to add this init-param to action servlet to your web.xml file.
I tested on 1.3