i cannot understood hitting page directly . if you mean that i am accessing by typing URL in the browser then it works fine it goes to login page(as i am not logged in) but when a login and goes to admin page given below and try to access the sceretquestion.jsp it still goes to login page. i have cleared all the navigations from faces-config.xml and i only have one action as told before in my pages.xml here is my jsf page: <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib" prefix="s" %> Administrator Console <f:view> <h:form> <h:commandButton id="secquestion" value="Secret Question" action="/secretquestions.jsp"/> <h:commandButton id="pricingops" value="Pricing Options" action="/pricingoptions.jsp"/> <h:commandButton id="organization" value="Organizations" action="/customerorganizations.jsp"/> <h:commandButton id="categories" value="Categories" action=""/> <h:commandButton id="role" value="Roles" action="/roles.jsp"/> <h:commandButton id="privileges" value="Privileges" action="/privileges.jsp"/> <h:commandButton id="paymodes" value="Payment Modes" action=""/> <h:commandButton id="currencies" value="Currencies" action=""/> </h:form> </f:view> View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3996663#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...