title: Spring security intercept-url root and login
body: <p>i want to secure everything except the root.. my security looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;http auto-config="true" use-expressions="true"&gt;
  &lt;intercept-url pattern="/"/&gt;
  &lt;intercept-url access="isAuthenticated()" pattern="/**"/&gt;
  &lt;form-login authentication-failure-url="/" login-page="/" default-target-url="/dashboard"/&gt;
  &lt;logout invalidate-session="true" logout-success-url="/"/&gt;
  &lt;/http&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>my login page is included in the root..
  i'm getting a "The page isn't redirecting properly" error..</p>
  
  <p>please can anybody help with this problem?</p>
  
  <p>thnx </p>