Web Development

I have an apache site that is connecting to a backend jboss server using the mod_jk plugin. This jboss server has multiple coldfusion applications deploy'd to it, and each of those applications has it's own apache webserver on the frontend.

The problem I'm running into is when I use a front-end DNS entry. So say the URL is:

http://www.foobar-dev.mydomain.com

In order for me to hit the backend jboss server I have to have the context root added to the request sent to apache:

http://www.foobar-dev.mydomain.com/some/context

I want to use mod_rewrite to make it so i can just type http://www.foobar-dev.mydom.com and apache will add the /some/context to the url.

Hopefully i explained that well enough. All my tries have either failed or caused an infinite redirect.

one attempt as an example

Code:

RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^(http://www.foobar-dev.mydom.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(http://www.foobar-dev.mydom.com/some/context)$ [R=301]

Well, your condition cannot be just server name if you rewrite to the same server name. I bet you can condition to full URL of http://www.foobar-dev.mydomain.com/

Got it to work:

Code:

  RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME}= ^(.*)(foobar-dev\.)
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/some/context/(.*) 
  RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://foobar-dev.huntington.com/some/context/ [R=301]