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I am running tomcat on centos6. I'm trying to configure Apache as a front end to tomcat so I could access:

help-test.example.com:8080/4-3/help help-test.example.com:8080/4-2/help help-test.example.com:8080/4-1/help

via:

help-test.example.com/4-3/help help-test.example.com/4-2/help help-test.example.com/4-1/help

with below apache configuration it is working:

VirtualHost *:443> LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so ServerName help-test.example.com:443 ServerAdmin [email protected] SSLEngine on SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT:!SSLv2:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key ProxyPass / ajp://127.0.0.1:8009/ ProxyPassReverse / ajp://127.0.0.1:8009/ ProxyRequests Off ProxyPreserveHost On Order deny,allow Allow from all ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error-ssl.log CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access-ssl.log combined RewriteLog "/var/log/httpd/rewrite-ssl.log" RewriteLogLevel 3 /VirtualHost> VirtualHost *:80> ServerName help-test.example.com Redirect / https://help-test.example.com /VirtualHost>

but one more thing needs also to be done when I access :

help-test.example.com/help --> help-test.example.com/4-3/help

I have tried to add:

 RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/help/ RewriteRule (.*) /4-3/help [L,NE,R]

getting an error: This web page has a redirect loop

192.168.1.40 - - [26/Mar/2015:10:13:26 +0000] [help-test.example.com/sid#7f89baa41700][rid#7f89bab202a8/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /4-3/help 192.168.1.40 - - [26/Mar/2015:10:13:26 +0000] [help-test.example.com/sid#7f89baa41700][rid#7f89bab202a8/initial] (3) applying pattern '(help)' to uri '/4-3/help' 192.168.1.40 - - [26/Mar/2015:10:13:26 +0000] [help-test.example.com/sid#7f89baa41700][rid#7f89bab202a8/initial] (2) rewrite '/4-3/help' -> '/4-3/help' 192.168.1.40 - - [26/Mar/2015:10:13:26 +0000] [help-test.example.com/sid#7f89baa41700][rid#7f89bab202a8/initial] (2) explicitly forcing redirect with https://help-test.example.com/4-3/help 192.168.1.40 - - [26/Mar/2015:10:13:26 +0000] [help-test.example.com/sid#7f89baa41700][rid#7f89bab202a8/initial] (1) redirect to https://help-test.example.com/4-3/help [REDIRECT/302] 192.168.1.40 - - [26/Mar/2015:10:13:26 +0000] [help-test.example.com/sid#7f89baa41700][rid#7f89bab0c308/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /4-3/help 192.168.1.40 - - [26/Mar/2015:10:13:26 +0000] [help-test.example.com/sid#7f89baa41700][rid#7f89bab0c308/initial] (3) applying pattern '(help)' to uri '/4-3/help' 192.168.1.40 - - [26/Mar/2015:10:13:26 +0000] [help-test.example.com/sid#7f89baa41700][rid#7f89bab0c308/initial] (2) rewrite '/4-3/help' -> '/4-3/help' 192.168.1.40 - - [26/Mar/2015:10:13:26 +0000] [help-test.example.com/sid#7f89baa41700][rid#7f89bab0c308/initial] (2) explicitly forcing redirect with https://help-test.example.com/4-3/help 192.168.1.40 - - [26/Mar/2015:10:13:26 +0000] [help-test.example.com/sid#7f89baa41700][rid#7f89bab0c308/initial] (1) redirect to https://help-test.example.com/4-3/help [REDIRECT/302]
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/help/ RewriteRule (.*) /4-3/help [L,NE,R]

You are getting a redirect loop here because you are saying that if the URL is not /help/ then redirect to /4-3/help (etc, etc, ...). You need to reverse the logic and only redirect when it is /help/.

Change to...

RewriteRule ^/?help$ /4-3/help [R,L]

NB: This is a temporary (302) redirect. Change R to R=301 to make it permanent.

EDIT: There appeared to be something that was appending a trailing slash to the request before the rewrite was processed, so the RewriteRule pattern needed to be changed to ^/help/$ (the ? was omitted since the directive is being applied directly in the server config).

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  • thanks w3d. it is almost working. I can access now using: help-test.example.com/help/help but how to shrink it to: help-test.example.com/help thanks Commented Mar 26, 2015 at 12:19
  • Where exactly are you placing these directives? Commented Mar 26, 2015 at 12:21
  • just below SSL configuration before Proxypass Commented Mar 26, 2015 at 12:27
  • When it does redirect, does it redirect to /4-3/help or /help/4-3/help? You aren't setting the DocumentRoot in your VirtualHost - what is the document root? Commented Mar 26, 2015 at 12:40
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    changing to RewriteRule ^/help/ /4-3/$0 [R=301,L] worked. thanks a lot Commented Mar 26, 2015 at 14:05

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