It might be possible to force the ExtensionsFilter to run by defining an additional filter-mapping like:<filter-mapping> <filter-name>extensionsFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>/login.jsf</url-pattern> <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher> </filter-mapping> which will run the filter on a forward.Does your login page really need to be a JSF page (ie contain JSF tags)? It might be easier to just implement it as a normal JSP page.
it's a jsf page. anyway, it worked: now it forwards to login. thanks :-)
