ShortURL's !/cs/

[mobik]

Hi,

 

I would like to rewrite any URL requests not containing /cs/Satellite? to contain this text

 

ie.

 

http://localhost/shorturl -to- http://localhost/cs/Satellite?shorturl

 

My thinking lead me to believe that a simple rule like below would do this:

 

RewriteEngine on

RewriteLog "C:\Temp\rewite.log"

 

RewriteRule !(^cs/Satellite?*)$ cs/Satellite?$1 [L]

 

I appear to be way off though, can anybody help please?

 

[corbin]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/cs/Satellite\?*

RewriteRule (.*) /cs/Satellite?$1

 

Should work.

 

 

 

By the way, it's usually a good idea to have the / on the second part of the rewrite rule.  Sometimes Apache does weird things when the / isn't included.

[mobik]

Hi Corbin,

 

thanks for the reply.

 

I have tried the following rule:

 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cs/Satellite\?*

RewriteRule (.*) /cs/Satellite?$1

 

The only change being the NOT on the Condition which is allowing requests with cs/Satellite to work normally which they didn't originally.  Request without cs/Satellite are not appearing to be rewritten though resulting in a 404 error.  I didn't point out that /cs/ is a Tomcat servlet which is being called through proxypass.  This has made me rewrite the rule to include [P] at the end.  I'm now receiving this error

 

Proxy Error

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.

The proxy server could not handle the request GET /cs/Satellite.

 

Reason: Error reading from remote server

 

Access.log is showing

 

127.0.0.1 - - [11/Feb/2009:14:31:26 +0000] "GET /cs/Satellite?/cs/Satellite HTTP/1.1" 502 403

 

So I think close but no cigar.  I am going to try some variations on the Rule but would welcome any more help with this voodoo please.

 

Thanks

 

Mobik

 

 

 

[corbin]

Ahhhh yeah I forgot the ! lol.

 

 

 

Hrmmmm, is the request even getting to the second server?