Set up redirects with Apache Server for a website running in Tomcat

Question

I have a centOS machine where there is a website with dynamic pages running on Tomcat (port 8080) and I have installed Apache server on the same machine (port 80) with a load balancer in front of this machine (port 80).

In the httpd.config for the directory I have this settings:

DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

<Directory "/var/www/html">
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all

 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteRule ^my-old-page$ /en-GB/Shop [R,L]    
 RewriteRule    "^/en-US/foo\.html$"  "/en-US/Shop.html" [PT]
 Redirect "/en-US/foo1.html" "/en-US/Shop.html"

</Directory>

And I have added a file called .htaccess under /var/www/html containing only:

RewriteRule ^my-old-page$ /en/my-new [R,L]

And after that I have restarted apache

service httpd restart

However it does not work?
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You do not have the RewriteEngine directive in neither your configuration file nor the .htaccess .

Per the Documentation , no rewrite processing is done unless the RewriteEngine is set to On .

It would benefit you to read the official guide and select the best scenario. You may note that all their examples include the RewriteEngine On directive. You may also consider using the much simpler Redirect directive.

Answer 2

Well the solution depends on what you really need. The easier , but not the best way it's using "mod_proxy_ajp".

in your http.conf active the following modules:

1. mod_proxy
2. mod_proxy_ajp

and add the following:

ProxyRequests Off
<Proxy *>
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from localhost
</Proxy>
ProxyPass       / ajp://localhost:8009/
ProxyPassReverse    / ajp://localhost:8009/

this configuration tells the apache(httpd) proxy all the request to and special port in tomcat that its by default configured in servers.xml

<Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" />