Hi Chris, 2017-05-12 13:31 GMT-04:00 Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net >:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Daniel, > > On 5/12/17 10:03 AM, Daniel Savard wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > my question is not specific to the Tomcat version specified in the > > subject line. I am trying to implement a URL rewrite or > > redirection using Tomcat. What I want to do is the following: > > > > In a given instance of Tomcat, I have each application context > > setup using the xml files in > > $CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/, so far so good. Hence > > for app1 I then have the URL: > https://myserver:myport/app1, etc. > > > > What I need to do, is to have a dummy application which purpose is > > just to redirect/rewrite the URL from one application to another. > > So, I need in fact an empty application capturing each request and > > send back to the browser a rewritten URL to the another > > application. > > > > For example, suppose I want to redirect app1 to app2, I need to > rewrite all > > possible URL with query options and so one replacing only app1 by > > app2 in the URL. > > > > https://myserver:myport/app1/something_more_specific?opt1 should be > > rewritten as > > https://myserver:myport/app2/something_more_specific?opt1 > > > > To do this, I read about the rewrite valve here: > > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/rewrite.html > > > > So, I created an empty directory $CATALINA_BASE/webapps/app1 with > > the following file: > > > > $CATALINA_BASE/webapps/app1/WEB-INF/rewrite.config > > > > And my $CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/app1.xml has the > > following entry within its context: > > > > <Valve > > className="org.apache.catalina.valves.rewrite.RewriteValve"/> > > > > My rewrite.config file is as follow: > > > > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/app1/?.* RewriteRule ^/app1(/?.*)$ > > /app2$1 [L] > > > > Without anything else, I am getting a HTTP 404 code. With an empty > > index.html I am getting a blank page. Within a working application > > I am getting the application's welcome page. But never the URL is > rewritten. The > > rewrite.config file is actually read, I checked by introducing > > some typo and I am getting an error message at startup. > > > > Is there a way to debug this problem? How can I see what is going > > on with the execution of the rewriting class? > > I think everything you have above is correct, except that you want to > deploy everything in the ROOT application instead of into "app1". With > "app1", you are re-writing "/app1/app1" to "/app1/app2" when in fact you > want to rewrite "/app1" to "/app2", correct? > > Also, it's important that /app1 not be a deployed application, otherwise > requests to that context path with be sent to the /app1 application > instead of to the ROOT webapp. > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJZFfGGAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYlfsQAK9+rFzKtrrPS73Ma9VDclkn > Lr3oG65TdKPhwVEtQlQoxLggX3GLiepImPzjY52rnMhxCZj+tt5n/fCkqVzEPnIp > /NNgz/nX/GWqYjU11V58Azh2GRrjBqCJmesawxB/Y5+2NjcW6PrXJNje5PBmkbjs > QkI5ftAYih7zxWQ4yASJfYwOmmjPpdNfyEM0IR/qkh/VnTz5bVu0/EgeOOK0/Dny > EsK+3ptm+gdTNVt9jqwEnhWx5tsgpanhTycyyagwROT2A7NaldIi7xARPW3ZlSSF > 0ncvQ8Z3G0KolBsGsDVyNgNv+bF38sfxOaN7xyp9GXFJVX5hKfRFBphiWPl+jjzz > mwPcA3MsqDM3fQ4hMTAffmnUAj786pTZ6MCjDnumFjnQZB0zXASEpfI4G9f3+dKM > fiVdjUQxgrXlUl6wcqBGUidN5PDb+akY8w9xNDl3PvBjrXfFIIfttLgGmxF5cej6 > dkvLqZoitIDzt8dOkWSns3UdK+fq3a1Hjw1BOPlvnvKbnhz2QXrxua6WMDQapohs > JUUkAR3sujPUs/Tgjq5SiIEBe9sbwQTysNgtw9MzFUmAB7D87cCt0zI8dCbaL54Z > iYUI0+IDVG7rc7+TwFeRo+ok96qMK1IKCiZt/8pe/097WcWMQq9FeYpGAg4YgZYo > bwhJFBohEZeuwZCwhN9F > =J7pC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > Thanks for the tip. I am almost there. Actually, moving everything in ROOT solved at least the actual execution of the rewriting. However, it didn't solve entirely my problem. If I access the URL: https://myhost/app1 in my browser the URL is actually rewritten to https://myhost/app2 and access the index.html, etc. This is fine. However, if I try to access the URL: https://myhost/app1/ in my browser the URL is NOT rewritten even if the actual application is properly accessed. I really need the URL to be sent back to the browser. The same thing happens if something follows the first part of the URI /app1/something will lead to /app1/something instead of /app2/something. The reason I am struggling with this and need this behavior is because a commercial application we are running here is having a new version where some files kept the same name as the older version, but the content is not the same (typically icons, logos and pictures) and in the previous version, they were marked to not expired in the browser's cache before six months. Since the content of user's cache is younger than six months, the browser never ask for a new version if anyone exists. So, the only way to force the browser to request all the files from the new version, is to let it think this is a new application. Hence, the need to rewrite the URI to something new. I suspect something tricky with the pattern matching to be responsible for this behavior. So, the original question still hold: is there a way to debug the rewriting rules? Regards, ----------------- Daniel Savard
