Rendering grails views on different sub URL - grails

Question

I am creating a rest based web application. i want all the rest based pages (HTML pages) should go into webapps folder and should be accessible at from there with the below URL
http://localhost:8080/myapp.
Above URL should render index.html lying in webapps folder. And all the subsequent pages should open from webapps folder only.
For the admin part i want to use grails views(GSP) and they should be accessible at
http://localhost:8080/myapp/admin
Above url should render the index.gsp page lying in grails-app/views/index.gsp.
To list all users on admin site, i want URL to be some thing like this
http://localhost:8080/myapp/admin/user/list and this should point to grails-app/views/user/list.gsp and userController with action list
Is there a way this can be achieved in Grails

Answer 1

Grails exposes your controllers and views using conventions by default. However, if you want to break that convention you can. There is nothing stopping you from re-working how the URL mappings are done in your application. In fact there is an entire section of the documentation dedicated to it.
Let's pretend for a second you wanted all your controllers to be under /admin/ you could easily change your UrlMappings.groovy to look like this:
class UrlMappings {
static mappings = {
"/admin/$controller/$action?/$id?(.$format)?"{
constraints {
// apply constraints here
}
}
}
Once you read through the documentation you should be able to map things however you want. The key is you have to define how you want them mapped.