I figured I would post this in answer to my own question, just in case anyone else has the same problem.
The issue was I two boxes set up one had apache, and tomcat on it, the other just had tomcat. The box with apache, and tomcat had tomcat running something unrelated to the secondary box. What I wanted to do was if a particular context was requested from the apache/tomcat domain to redirect to the other domain and to the appropriate ports (ie 8080/8443) the redirect was simple enough, with a rewrite rule in the apache configuration. RewriteRule "^/({specific context})(.*)" "http://{domain of tomcat box}/$1" [R] for {specific context} you would substitute the context you wish to map to the URL on the other domain. for {domain of tomcat box} substitute the domain of the box you wish to redirect to, from the apache box. this was straight forward enough the trick was to redirect traffic on the other box from port 80 to 8080 and port 443 to 8443. I found these easiest way to do this is by adding iptable rules on the tomcat box. iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080 iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8443 iptables -t nat -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080 iptables -t nat -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8443 the first 2 rules redirect external incoming requests, and the next 2 redirect localhost requests. (the second isn't always necessary, but in this case it was appropriate.) I hope this helps someone else out of the mess of sorting this sort of thing out. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]