Hi I've got what I think is a pretty normal setup, where I have an Apache server serving some content for a website, and using mod_jk to connect to Tomcat running on another server. My problem is that I'm also trying to use mod_rewrite to err, rewrite URLs. In short, if I do this the 'normal' way and include rewrite directives in the .htaccess file for the website, it doesn't work and they are ignored, however if I put them in the main httpd.conf file, before the JkMount directive, then they do work.
This appears to be a case of a problem with the order in which modules/filters hook into Apache and are run; I have looked at the documentation and searched about for answers on this but found nada. I've tried using the various JkOptions setups but it doesn't seem to achieve much. In my httpd.conf, mod_rewrite is loaded before mod_jk though I don't think this matters especially. Some potentially relevant config - - in httpd.conf <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory "/var/www/html"> Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks <LimitExcept GET HEAD POST> deny from all </LimitExcept> AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> AccessFileName .htaccess JkWorkersFile /etc/httpd/conf/workers.properties JkShmFile /var/log/httpd/mod_jk.shm # Rotate weekly JkLogFile "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs /var/log/httpd/mod_jk.log 604800" JkLogLevel warn JkLogStampFormat "[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] " #JkOptions +ForwardURIProxy - Inside the (included into httpd.conf) virtual host.conf file RewriteEngine on Include vhosts/htaccess/mysite.htaccess # Mount all to Tomcat JkMount /* mysite # Handle images locally JkUnMount /*.gif mysite JkUnMount /*.jpg mysite JkUnMount /*.jpeg mysite JkUnMount /*.png mysite - Inside the my site.htaccess file (example line) # McAfee secure image RewriteRule ^/assets/cached/mcafee\.png /assets/php/mcafeeimage.php [L,NC] Now this all works fine - except that I have to have a file which is directly included into the httpd.conf, and which thus requires the server to be restarted every time you want to make a change. On top of that, if there is a problem in the file, then the whole server will fail to start, which is clearly far from ideal. Is there a way to hook in the RewriteEngine in .htaccess rather than having to include them like this? I can't believe I am the first person to discover this/have this setup? Many thanks Pete --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org