After further investigation it was discovered that Tomcat with a Logback implementation is blocking the Rewrite Valve module, yet to decipher why?
However - on a different Tomcat prototype running with the standard JULI logging, the rewrites worked as expected. From: theo.swe...@avios.com To: Tomcat <users@tomcat.apache.org>, Date: 13/10/2015 15:10 Subject: Tomcat 8 Rewrite Valve Hello - I'm having issues implementing a HTTP 301 redirect via the Rewrite Valve module. Ref - https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/rewrite.html Tomcat v8.021 is running on Ubuntu 14.04 x64. The requirement is to run the rewrite config globally for all webapps, for this reason the valve is set inside the host. conf/server.xml <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="false" deployOnStartup="true"> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.rewrite.RewriteValve" <Manager className="org.apache.catalina.session.PersistentManager" saveOnRestart="false"> <Store className="org.apache.catalina.session.FileStore" /> </Manager> <Valve className="ch.qos.logback.access.tomcat.LogbackValve" quiet="true" filename="${catalina.base}/conf/logback-access-localhost.xml" /> </Host> Redirect set inside - conf/Catalina/localhost/rewrite.config RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/abc/key$ RewriteRule ^/abc/key(.*) /audit-management-ds-1.0/info [R=301,L] Test - curl -vv -X GET http://ubt-srv-14-01:10080/abc/key * Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache * Trying 127.0.1.1... * Connected to ubt-srv-14-01 (127.0.1.1) port 10080 (#0) > GET /abc/key HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: curl/7.35.0 > Host: ubt-srv-14-01:10080 > Accept: */* > < HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found * Server Apache-Coyote/1.1 is not blacklisted < Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 < Content-Length: 0 < Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:52:20 GMT Debug has been enabled on logging yet nothing is showing in the redirect in the access log. However - logs do appear for curl -X GET http://ubt-srv-14-01:10080/audit-management-ds-1.0/info Any ideas? Regards, Theo ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Mileage Company Limited is a limited company registered in England under company number 2260073 whose registered office address is at Astral Towers, Betts Way, London Road, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 9XY. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by Mimecast for the presence of computer viruses. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Mileage Company Limited is a limited company registered in England under company number 2260073 whose registered office address is at Astral Towers, Betts Way, London Road, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 9XY. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by Mimecast for the presence of computer viruses. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------