I am having difficulty using the internal redirect capabilities of Apache mod_rewrite and passing through requests to Tomcat through mod_jk. We are using Apache/2.2.3 and Tomcat/6.0.16. Our tomcat war application is based on SpringFramework 2.5.4, configured with a SimpleUrlHandlerMapping.
A concrete example. We used to serve a 302 response for /crate, so the client is redirected to a subsequent request for /donors/redeem_gift_certificate.html?partner=CRATEANDBARREL&utm_campaign =CBGC. Now we want our Apache/Tomcat to serve up the content for the longer URL directly when the short /crate HTTP request arrives. I keep getting a 404 error instead. This is the mod_rewrite directive: RewriteRule /crate /donors/redeem_gift_certificate.html?partner=CRATEANDBARREL&utm_campaign =CBGC [NC,PT] I also have this mod_jk directive, which would act on either version of the URL: JkMount /* worker1 First, note that requests to http://www.myserver.com/ donors/redeem_gift_certificate.html?partner=CRATEANDBARREL&utm_campaign= CBGC work correctly. However, if I load http://www.myserver.com/crate in a browser, I am getting a 404 error back from Tomcat and Apache. It appears that Tomcat is being passed a mixed-up URL of "/crate?partner=CRATEANDBARREL&utm_campaign=CBGC". Our Tomcat application doesn't have an SimpleUrlHandlerMapping entry for /crate, but it does for /donors/redeem_gift_certificate.html. I tested and found that the HttpServletRequest returns "/crate" for request.getRequestURI(), but "partner=CRATEANDBARREL&utm_campaign=CBGC" for request.getQueryString(). Note that I do have the PT flag for the RewriteRule, as others have advised. I get the same results by reversing the order of the RewriteRule and JkMount directives. This is part of an SEO effort, in which we are trying to persist these URLs as they were originally requested, rather than do 301/302 redirects back to the browser or crawler. So I suspect someone else has figured this out. Thanks, David Crane dav...@donorschoose.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
