You need to look into the cookie domain and cookie path of the session cookies returned to the browser. It may be that these values are such that the browser does not send the cookie with the following request. To look at these values, use LiveHTTPHeaders or HTTPWatch (Firefox and IE resp.) to inspect the Set-Cookie headers. -ascs -----Original Message----- From: Pete Lamborne [mailto:pete@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 10:00 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [users@httpd] Losing session -- mod_rewrite Check this out: I have two rewrite rules, basically going to the same place (same context): RewriteRule ^/pub/?(.*) ajp://dev3:8009/pub/$1 [QSA,P,L] RewriteRule ^/pub-test/?(.*) ajp://dev3:8009/pub/$1 [P,QSA,L] The 1st one maintains session (tomcat backend), the 2nd does not, generating a new session with each request. So if the rewrite rule does not mask the Tomcat context, everything is good, but if it does session gets lost. The cookies that Tomcat is setting all say /pub, which is what I want. Apologies if this is one for the tomcat-user list, but I figure this is likely a problem folks from this list can help me solve. I messed around with [PT] and an Alias rule, to no avail. Hoping this one is easy and obvious for someone. Rewrite log follows, in case it helps at all. pete 10.1.10.82 - - [06/Jan/2006:13:56:49 --0700] [dev2/sid#862bac0][rid#86e3060/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /pub-test/test1.jsp 10.1.10.82 - - [06/Jan/2006:13:56:49 --0700] [dev2/sid#862bac0][rid#86e3060/initial] (3) applying pattern '^/servlets(.*)' to uri '/pub-test/test1.jsp' 10.1.10.82 - - [06/Jan/2006:13:56:49 --0700] [dev2/sid#862bac0][rid#86e3060/initial] (3) applying pattern '^/video/?(.*)' to uri '/pub-test/test1.jsp' 10.1.10.82 - - [06/Jan/2006:13:56:49 --0700] [dev2/sid#862bac0][rid#86e3060/initial] (3) applying pattern '^/pub-test/?(.*)' to uri '/pub-test/test1.jsp' 10.1.10.82 - - [06/Jan/2006:13:56:49 --0700] [dev2/sid#862bac0][rid#86e3060/initial] (2) rewrite '/pub-test/test1.jsp' -> 'ajp://dev3:8009/pub/test1.jsp' 10.1.10.82 - - [06/Jan/2006:13:56:49 --0700] [dev2/sid#862bac0][rid#86e3060/initial] (2) forcing proxy-throughput with ajp://dev3:8009/pub/test1.jsp 10.1.10.82 - - [06/Jan/2006:13:56:49 --0700] [dev2/sid#862bac0][rid#86e3060/initial] (1) go-ahead with proxy request proxy:ajp://dev3:8009/pub/test1.jsp [OK] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx