url redirection and tomcat

[Carlos Ferreira <ca...@gilem.com>]

hi all,


i'm looking for information on url redirection and it's effects on tomcat:

i'm using Apache 1.3.20 / PHP 4.0.5 / Tomcat 3.2.1 on WinMe

what i want to do is to split an url like http://www.myhost.com/product/XXX/yyyy.jsp be split up into http://www.myhost.com/product/yyyy.jsp; XXXX being transmitted as an argument.

The rewrite rules i've used in apache are as follows:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^/product/([^/]+)/(.*)    /product/$2?param1=$1  [QSA]
RewriteRule   ^(.+)  -  [PT]

Alias /product "c:/Apache/tomcat/webapps/product"

In Tomcat's server.xml i've added:

        <Context path="/product" 
                 docBase="webapps/product" 
                 crossContext="false"
                 debug="0" 
                 reloadable="true" > 
        </Context>

When i try to call the page http://www.myhost.com/product/XXX/yyyy.jsp Tomcat says there is an error: can't find page /product/XXX/yyyy.jsp ( seems doesn't Apache doesn't request the correct/rewirten page name or Tomcat doesn't correctly understand the request... :( ; i've tried to call the page /product/yyyy.jsp without the rewriting rules which works fine; i've also used PHP pages with the rewriting rule which worked. Only have problems with servlets and jsp pages.

If you have any ideas... Are there any replacements for SimpleMapper1???


thxs in adavance for your help


Regards


Carlos Ferreira

ps sorry for the bad english :(