It seems the mode rewrite in .htaccess apache is not working

Question

I am trying to run iJab with Openfire server which requires me to redirect the /http-bind request to localhost:7070/http-bind. I copied the iJAb folder into my document root and wrote the following code inside .htaccess file within the directory

    AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    Options +Indexes
    Options +MultiViews
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule /http-bind/ http://localhost:7070/http-bind/ [P]

In httpd.conf , its AllowOverride all

But when I run it, it gives error .. username or password error but firebug console shows 404 error on the ajax post request to

http://localhost/http-bind

. So i have a doubt if its being redirected at all. Is there any way to check if htaccess is actually used or not?

Also, I am not using any virtual host, the server name for both apache server and the openfire server is localhost and address is 127.0.0.1. I let that be since the openfire admin works perfectly on 9090 port and the port for http-bind is 7070

Can this be the reason?

Looking for some ideas

Answer 1

In case of .htaccess, you need to remove the local path prefix from your pattern:

RewriteRule ^http-bind(/.*)?$ http://localhost:7070/http-bind/ [P]

Answer 2

The rule you're using has a slash at the end, but the URL you're using doesn't.