Error while Redirecting page using mod rewrite in apache
 

Hi,

i had configured apache and tomcat its started and works well.i had placed index.jsp in apache-tomcat-6.0.26/webapps/ROOT/jsp/wip/index.jsp folder..how can i redirect /jsp/wip/index.jsp to listen to tomcat page using mod rewrite .i had enabled mod_rewrite module in apache http.conf file .i could int able to redirect /jsp/wip/index.jsp to tomcat page automatically http://65.23.87.xx:8080.can someone help me how can enable it

http://65.23.87.xx/jsp/wip/index.jsp to http://65.23.87.xx:8080
vi/etc/httpd/httpd.conf

find:
#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Saved the chages changes

service httpd restart

Regards
arun

Hi,

It's better not to use mod_rewrite and use apache as a reverse proxy for tomcat.
For this you'll need mod_proxy_ajp (or mod_jk that is an external apache module)
Check this out that is describing both methods

Regards

Hi

I had enabled the mod rewrite module in httpd.conf

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Redirect http://bmw.etl.com/jsp/wip/index.jsp http://bmw.etl.com

but still /jsp/wip/index.jsp never redirecting to bmw.etl.com

im very new to apache can someone help me out what wrong im making in redirecting url

Regards
arun

Hi,

First of all your Redirect is wrong.
2nd, I guess you didn't read my previous post. You need mod_proxy or mod_jk for this, because it's better to hide tomcat running as the backend server.

With mod_rewrite, e.g using:
when someone visits http://bmw.etl.com/jsp/wip/index.jsp he gets redirected externally to http://65.23.87.xx:8080, so he can see that url in the browsers location bar..
With mod_proxy instead, the url is not changing. So better take a look at the link in my previous post and use mod_proxy/mod_proxy_ajp or mod_jk

Regards

Thanks for ur help i got solved

Hi
how can divert tomcat page http://bmw.etl.com:8080/jsp/wip/index.jsp http://bmw.etl.com

but i could in divert tha page http://bmw.etl.com:8080/jsp/wip/index .rewrite rule which i was written was when ever apache page hit / it should want to divert it to tomcat /ROOT/webapps/jsp/b2c/index.jsp

RewriteEngine on
RewriteLogLevel 12
RewriteLog /etc/httpd/logs/rewrite.log
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bmw.etl.com$
RewriteRule http://bmw.etl.com/ http://bmw.etl.com:8080/jsp/b2c/index.jsp

i could int get success then wrote another rule
RewriteRule / http://bmw.etl.com/jsp/b2c/index.jsp

then i tried out something different but it too had a same error
RewriteRule http://bmw.etl.com/ http://bmw.etl.com:8080/jsp/b2c/index.jsp

cd /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Jkmount / workers1 ...

Hi,

This isn't going to work, because in the RewriteRule you can rewrite a URL (what starts with http://), but a URI (that's a path, like /blah/index.html)
Anyway, I don't fully understand what you want to do, but if you want any request for http://bmw.etl.com to get redirected to tomcat's index.jsp (but not in the fashion of a reverse proxy), then you need this:
If you just want to rewrite /, then you'll need this instead