Apache multiple URL to one domain redirect

Question

For the last two day, I've been spending a lot of time to solve my problem, maybe someone can help me.

Problem: I need to redirect different url's to one tomcat webbase-dir used for artifactory. following urls should point to the tomcat/artifactory webapp:

maven-repo.example.local ; maven-repo.example.local/artifactory ; srv-example/artifactory

Where maven-repo.example.local is the dns for the server-hostname: "srv-example" I'm accessing the tomcat app through the JK_mod module. The webapp is in the ROOT directory This is what I've got so far:

<VirtualHost *:80>
   #If URL contains "artifactory" strip down and redirect
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^\artifactory\$ [NC] 
   # (how can I remove 'artifactory' from the redirected parameters? )
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://maven-repo.example.local/$1 [R=301,L] 

   ServerName localhost
   ErrorLog "logs/redirect-error_log"       
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName maven-repo.example.local
    ErrorLog "logs/maven-repo.example.local-error.log"
    CustomLog "logs/maven-repo.example.local-access.log" common   
    #calling tomcat webapp in ROOT
    JkMount /* ajp13w
</VirtualHost>

The webapp is working with "maven-repo.example.local", but with "maven-repo.example.local/artifactory" tomcat gives a 404 - "The requested resource () is not available." It seems that the mod_rewrite doesn't have taken any effect, even if I redirect to another page, e.g google.com

I'm testing on windows 7 with maven-repo.example.local added in the "system32/drivers/hosts" file

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Hi,

First, all Redirects are processed before Aliases are processed, and therefore a request that matches a Redirect or RedirectMatch will never have Aliases applied. Second, the Aliases and Redirects are processed in the order they appear in the configuration files, with the first match taking precedence

Please see this URL

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.1/mod/mod_alias.html

Answer 2

Thanks a lot for your hint @PHP-Prabhu

a simple:

RedirectPermanent /artifactory /.

in the apache httpd.conf did the trick!