Using a subfolder path on mobiles

In this recipe, you'll learn how to use a subfolder in the URL for the mobile pages of your website. For example:

• mysite.com for the normal website

• mysite.com/mobile for the mobile version

Getting ready

Make sure that the SitePreferenceHandlerInterceptor interceptor is declared in the Spring configuration. Refer to the Switching to the normal view on mobiles recipe in this chapter.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to use a subfolder path for the mobile version of the website:

1. In the Spring configuration, declare a SiteSwitcherHandlerInterceptor bean initialized with the urlPath() method with the subfolder name and the web application root path if necessary:

   @Bean
   public SiteSwitcherHandlerInterceptor siteSwitcherHandlerInterceptor() {
       return SiteSwitcherHandlerInterceptor.urlPath("/mobile", "spring_webapp");
   }

2. Declare that bean as an interceptor:

   @Override
   public void addInterceptors(InterceptorRegistry registry) {
     ...
   registry.addInterceptor(siteSwitcherHandlerInterceptor...