I have an established environment of Apache 2.2 and Tomcat 7. I've had mod_jk working without problem for years. I have a need to add some user-friendly URLs. So I added mod_rewrite to the picture.
Here's the problem... I have a very simple rewrite rule that maps /test to /abc.jsp. I have a mod_jk mount statement to send *.jsp to Tomcat. When I send "/test" in, mod_rewrite does the mapping as expected. I looked in the rewrite log file. The log file says it matches and converts. (I did a quick check and mapped to a jpg and did indeed get the mapped jpg back... so it appears mod_rewrite is working fine). But when the request gets to mod_jk, it's the original URL - /test, which obviously does not match the *.jsp and therefore does not send to Tomcat. I'm new to mod_rewrite. So I'm obviously missing something. I thought I could use it as simply a URL converter that sits in front of everything in Apache and maps one URL to another, and everything downstream in Apache (i.e. mod_jk) would see the mapped URL as if that was the URL that came from the browser. So mod_rewrite works fine; mod_jk works fine. They just appear to both be seeing the original input URL. What am I missing? How do I make mod_jk use the mapped URL from mod_rewrite? (And send the mapped URL on to Tomcat instead of sending the original URL)? Thanks Jerry
