mod_rewrite base url

["Todd Nine" <todd.nine@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
  I'm running Apache with mod_jk, and several tomcat back end servers.  I have a default application I would like to use, but I'm not sure how to get mod_rewrite to work to redirect the client to the default server.  What I would like is something like the following

user enters --> http://www.myserver.com/
mod_rewrite redirects to --> http://www.myserver.com/insight

I have the following, but its not working.  I'm basically trying to find an empty URI then redirect, but it doesn't seem to work.  I just get the empty directory indexing.  Could anyone give me a hand?

RewriteEngine On

#Match all request URIs that are empty
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}/insight/

Thanks,
Todd