Subdomain redirection in Apache Virtual Hosting

[Darren Kukulka <darren.kukulka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I have a general question regarding subdomain redirection with virtual hosts.

Basically, we have a domain - let's call it sample.com - with several subdomains, xxx.sample.com and yyy.sample.com

At the momend www.sample.com takes people to a website hosted elsewhere

We need to have anybody hitting xxx.sample.com and yyy.sample.com redirected to their respective applications - running under Tomcat and reached by AJP connectors - through a single Apache web server (2.2.17) with mod_jk connector (1.2.2).

That is, the virtual host definitions should parse the incoming URL, and use AJP worker1 to direct traffic to Tomcat on another server running the application for xxx.sample.com.....and use AJP worker2 to direct traffic to Tomcat on yet another server running the application for yyy.sample.com

Plus, we want anybody browsing to xxx.sample.com or yyy.sample.com to have any redirection hidden from their URL, i.e. rather than seeing https://xxx.sample.com/xxx-application/login.jsp , they would see https://xxx.sample.com/login.jsp

Been looking into mod_rewrite and mod_proxy (for proxypass and proxypass_reverse for hiding actual URLs)...but I think I'm getting overloaded with information!

There is already a wildcard SSL certificate in place for *.sample.com. so that's all OK...and the AJP connections appear to work fine as well...it's just getting this darned subdomain config tied down.

Can anybody suggest a clean way to acheive this?

Many Thanks,
Daz