convert web.config rewrite rule to htaccess rewrite rule (All files without an extension to be processed as .cfm)

Question

I am moving a site from IIS 7 to Apache 2.4 and have the following web.config rewrite rule I am having trouble converting to .htaccess. The rule essentially allows for clean (seo friendly) urls by rewriting all files without an extension with the .cfm extension (eg www.mydomain/bag rewrites on the server as www.mydomain.com/bag.cfm. The working rule in web.config is shown below

<rule name="Rewrite all non extension requests to .cfm" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^(.*)$" />
      <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}.cfm" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" />
      </conditions>
      <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}.cfm" />
    </rule>

I have tried all the like posts I could find on here and unfortunately none of them worked for me. I am running Lucee 5.0 on CentOS 7 (Apache 2.4) if that matters. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I don't really know about Tomcat; I assume you need Apache because Tomcat's no good for serving your non-script content.

You could set them up so that they both have the same document root, thus have congruent URLs, but have Tomcat listening on a different port, and not have that port open externally. Then you could proxy requests that are for (hidden) cfm files like so:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.cfm -f
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^\S++\s++([^?\s]++)(\?\S*)?
RewriteRule ^ http://127.0.0.1:8080%1.cfm%2 [NS,NE,P]
RewriteRule (?<=.cfm)$ http://127.0.0.1:8080/404.cfm [NS,NE,P]

The second rule is an example to pretend that the cfm files are not there if request directly.

You will need the appropriate proxy module(s) enabled.