Tomcat apps and mod_rewrite

I have a server with some tomcat apps.

The tomcat app is accessed via http://www.sitename.com/appgroup/app

I also want this to be the page you see when you visit
http://www.sitename.com

I currently have this working using a META REFRESH on the index.html,
but I would rather have this working using something serverside such as
mod_rewrite, essentially so that search engine spidering works correctly.

I have tried using mod_rewrite as follows

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule /(.*) http://www.sitename.com/appgroup/app/
RewriteLog "/var/log/httpd/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 3

But the logs show that Apache is trying to be clever, and rather than
presenting http://www.sitename.com/appgroup/app to itself so that mod_jk
picks it up, apache tries to serve /home/user/documentroot/appgroup/app
which gives a file not found.

Could anyone shed any light on how to get this to work?

Hi

we have an similar enviroment with apache & tomcat

I use the ProxyPass - directive and <Virtualhost> to serve different
web-domains with one tomcat server.

<Virtualhost x.x.x.x>
ServerAdmin ruedi.schwitter.DeleteThis@feld1.ch
ServerName <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.feld1.ch" target="_blank">www.feld1.ch</a>

ProxyPass /yourapp <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://tomcathost:8080/yourapp" target="_blank">http://tomcathost:8080/yourapp</a>
ProxyPassReverse /yourapp/ <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://tomcathost:8080/yourapp/" target="_blank">http://tomcathost:8080/yourapp/</a>
ProxyPass /
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://tomcathost:8080/yourapp/" target="_blank">http://tomcathost:8080/yourapp/</a>

ErrorLog /usr/local/apache/log/yourapp.log
.....

</Virtualhost>

<Virtualhost x.x.x.x>
ServerAdmin ruedi.schwitter.DeleteThis@feld1.ch
ServerName <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.feld2.ch" target="_blank">www.feld2.ch</a>

ProxyPass /yourapp2 <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://tomcathost:8080/yourapp2" target="_blank">http://tomcathost:8080/yourapp2</a>
ProxyPassReverse /yourapp2/ <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://tomcathost:8080/yourapp2/" target="_blank">http://tomcathost:8080/yourapp2/</a>
ProxyPass /
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://tomcathost:8080/yourapp2/" target="_blank">http://tomcathost:8080/yourapp2/</a>

ErrorLog /usr/local/apache/log/yourapp2.log
.....

</Virtualhost>


Hope this help.

Regards Ruedi


Alan Cooper schrieb:

 > I have a server with some tomcat apps.
 >
<font color=purple> > The tomcat app is accessed via <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.sitename.com/appgroup/app</font" target="_blank">http://www.sitename.com/appgroup/app</font</a>>
 >
 > I also want this to be the page you see when you visit
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.sitename.com</font" target="_blank">http://www.sitename.com</font</a>>
 >
 > I currently have this working using a META REFRESH on the index.html,
 > but I would rather have this working using something serverside such as
 > mod_rewrite, essentially so that search engine spidering works correctly.
 >
 > I have tried using mod_rewrite as follows
 >
 > RewriteEngine on
<font color=purple> > RewriteRule /(.*) <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.sitename.com/appgroup/app/</font" target="_blank">http://www.sitename.com/appgroup/app/</font</a>>
 > RewriteLog "/var/log/httpd/rewrite.log"
 > RewriteLogLevel 3
 >
 > But the logs show that Apache is trying to be clever, and rather than
 > presenting <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.sitename.com/appgroup/app" target="_blank">http://www.sitename.com/appgroup/app</a> to itself so that mod_jk
 > picks it up, apache tries to serve /home/user/documentroot/appgroup/app
 > which gives a file not found.
 >
 > Could anyone shed any light on how to get this to work?<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->