Apache with mod_rewrite and mod_proxy doesn't work / P Flag

[Rael <e.macs@xxxxxx>]

Hello,

I'm in the process to use Apache as a reverse proxy with mod_rewrite to have nicer URLs for an APEX-application.

The user shouldn't never see the actual URLs from app1.example.com:8888/apex..., that's why I use mod_proxy too.

Alas, it doesn't work.

 

Current settings in default vhost:

    <Directory /var/www/html>
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
      AllowOverride All
      Order allow,deny
      allow from all

      ### Rewrite Rules ###

      RewriteEngine On
      LogLevel alert rewrite:trace6

      RewriteRule ^$ http://app1.example.com:8888/apex/f?p=111:3

      #####################
    </Directory>

For example with "RewriteRule ^$ http://app1.example.com:8888/apex/f?p=111:3"; the user gets a http redirection from e.g. http://localhost to http://app1.example.com:8888/apex/f?p=111:3 and then he also sees this last URL in his browser, which I don't want.

Infos from the log when I sent a request with the previous rewrite rule:

    [perdir /var/www/html/] strip per-dir prefix: /var/www/html/ -> 
    [perdir /var/www/html/] applying pattern '^$' to uri ''
    [perdir /var/www/html/] rewrite '' -> 'http://app1.example.com:8888
      /apex/f?p=111:3'
    split uri=http://app1.example.com:8888/apex/f?p=111:3 ->
      uri=http://app1.example.com:8888/apex/f, args=p=111:3
    [perdir /var/www/html/] implicitly forcing redirect (rc=302) with
      http://app1.example.com:8888/apex/f
    [perdir /var/www/html/] escaping http://app1.example.com:8888
      /apex/f?p=111:3 for redirect
    [perdir /var/www/html/] escaping p=111:3 to query string for redirect
      p=111:3
    [perdir /var/www/html/] redirect to http://app1.example.com:8888
      /apex/f?p=111:3 [REDIRECT/302]

Adding the flag [P] to the RewriteRule, as far as I see it, should bring the desired behavior, but doesn't. I just get the index page from apache.

>From the logs, with [P] flag added to the previous rule:

    [perdir /var/www/html/] strip per-dir prefix: /var/www/html/ -> 
    [perdir /var/www/html/] applying pattern '^$' to uri ''
    [perdir /var/www/html/] rewrite '' -> 'http://app1.example.com:8888
      /apex/f?p=111:3'
    uri=http://app1.example.com:8888/apex/f?p=111:3 ->
      uri=http://app1.example.com:8888/apex/f, args=p=111:3
    [perdir /var/www/html/] escaped URI in per-dir context for proxy,
      http://app1.example.com:8888/apex/f -> http://app1.example.com:8888
      /apex/f
    [perdir /var/www/html/] forcing proxy-throughput with 
      http://app1.example.com:8888/apex/f
    [perdir /var/www/html/] go-ahead with proxy request 
      proxy:http://app1.example.com:8888/apex/f?p=111:3 [OK]
    [perdir /var/www/html/] strip per-dir prefix: /var/www
      /html/index.html -> index.html
    [perdir /var/www/html/] applying pattern '^$' to uri 'index.html'
    [perdir /var/www/html/] pass through /var/www/html/index.html

OS: Ubuntu 14.04 Apache(with mod_rewrite and mod_proxy enabled): 2.4.7

Thank you!

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