Example Balancer Rules and Information

[Ryan Clark <ry...@perspicuity.co.uk>]

Hi, I have deployed tomcat 5.0.28 (it has to be this version) and I need to configure it to redirect URLs sent to the ROOT to one of several webapps. I am using the balancer app as the ROOT application and I have been able to get the basic configuration working. (http://host1 redirects to http://host1/webapp1 and http://host2 redirects to http://host2/webapp2) 
 
What I am looking for is to redirect urls such as http://hostname/dir/dir2 to http://hostname/webapp/dir/dir2 where dir2 is actually a variable which appears in the url as a directory and is handled by the webapp, so it cannot be hardcoded into the redirect. I have done some searching and I cannot find many examples of the rules that can be used for the standard balancer other than the 3 examples that come in the rules.xml. 
 
Is what I am trying possible? I cannot use Apache in front of Tomcat as this causes further problems with the webapp. I would prefer not to do this via JSP if possible.
 
thanks
Ryan Clark
Senior Technical Consultant
Perspicuity Ltd
ryan.clark@perspicuity.co.uk
 
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