Redirection issue in a SSL virtual hose

["John Bourke" <john.bourke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

 

I have some applications which are running under Tomcat, in a directory called "www".  The Applications are called "Admin" and "Customer".  I use Apache to redirect and proxy into Tomcat.

 

I want to access my application using several URLS

 

http://www.company.com/

https://www.company.com/

 

These should point to https://www.company.com/Customer as this is the default customer landing point.  But also I need to use

 

http://www.company.com/Customer

https://www.company.com/Customer

 

http://www.company.com/Admin

https://www.company.com/Admin

 

So I have set up my redirects for http

 

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80 >
        ServerName www.company.com
        RedirectMatch Permanent ^/Customer(.*) https://www.company.com/Customer
        RedirectMatch Permanent ^/Admin(.*) https://www.company.com/Admin
        RedirectMatch Permanent ^/$ https://www.company.com/Customer
        RedirectMatch Permanent (.*)$ https://www.company.com/Customer
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:443 >

        ServerName www.company.com

        SSLEngine On
        SSLCertificateFile conf/ssl/www.company.com.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile conf/ssl/www.company.com.key
        ProxyRequests Off
        AllowCONNECT 443

 

        <Location />
                Order deny,allow
                Allow from all
                ProxyPass http://1.2.3.4:8080/www/
                ProxyPassReverse http://1.2.3.4:8080/www/
                ProxyPassReverse /www/
        </Location>

 

        DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache2/htdocs
</VirtualHost>

No problem here the http URLs work OK.

 

http://www.company.com/

http://www.company.com/Customer

http://www.company.com/Admin

 

For the https URLs, the following work OK

 

https://www.company.com/Customer

https://www.company.com/Admin

 

BUT

 

https://www.company.com/ 

 

Does not work.  The request. and of course it should not, as we need

 

http://1.2.3.4:8080/www/Customer

http://1.2.3.4:8080/www/Admin

 

For the Tomcat application

 

https://www.company.com/ 

 

Results in

 

http://1.2.3.4:8080/www

Which does not point to the Tomcat application.

 

So what I need is some form of URL rewriting or redirection.  I tried adding a redirect into the SSL virtual host

 

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:443 >

        ServerName www.company.com

        RedirectMatch Permanent ^/$ https://www.company.com/Customer

 

I also tried rewriting. 

 

        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteRule ^/$ /Customer [R,L]

 

Neither are redirecting or rewriting the request for / into /Customer

 

So my URL of / proxised to http://1.2.3.4:8080/www/ and gives me an error as my application is not there.

 

Any suggestions at how to alias/rewrite/redirect/proxy the root to /Customer ?

 

Thanks

 

john