[users@httpd] Simple mod-rewrite

["Witham, Darren (Contractor)" <wi...@bp.com>]

Hi,

  This is a simple mod_rewrite question but I have tried numerous
combinations of mod-rewrite rules/conditions and am having no joy.

  Users usually access my app via https://hostname/xyz/initial.jsp (xyz path
passes to weblogic handler)

  I wish to use mod-rewite to call the above page even if they just attempt
to access the app via https://hostname i.e I don't want a directory listing
of the Apache document root. I have solved this using a simple HTML file
that does a redirect but wanted to remove the need for this and use
mod_rewrite.

  I have tried all sorts of combinations like 

  RewriteRule / /xyz/initial.jsp 
  RewriteRule /\// \/xyz\/initial.jsp
  RewriteRule \/ \/xyz\/initial.jsp

  and they all come back with a bad request error


  My httpd.conf file is slightly more involved than a standard one as we use
SSL and compression which don't seem to like each other so we have split out
into virtual hosts but to start with I would be grateful if someone could
just tell me how to simply define the rule/condition to rewrite a request
for the document root to /xyz/initial.jsp and then I can worry about whether
the other bits of httpd.conf file are causing something to fail.

Thx
  

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Re: [users@httpd] Simple mod-rewrite

[Robert Andersson <ro...@profundis.nu>]

Witham, Darren (Contractor) wrote:
>   I wish to use mod-rewite to call the above page even if they just
> attempt to access the app via https://hostname i.e I don't want a
> directory listing of the Apache document root.

Perhaps I'm a bit tired, but I would guess that this does the job:

    RedirectMatch  ^/$ https://hostname/xyz/initial.jsp

Regards,
Robert Andersson


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