Question about the use of proxy and rewrite.

Good morning to all,
i have a small problem to use lighttpd, i have this situation

Internet => lighttpd (proxy) => tomcat server

I want that a url like http://www.interneturl.com/ will be translated to
http://www.interneturl.com/javaapp/ and forwarded to the tomcat server.
So the home page of the site is the webapp on the tomcat server.

I tried this configuration:

$SERVER["socket"] == ":80" {
  $HTTP["host"] =~ "www.interneturl.com" {
      $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/" {
       url.rewrite-once = ( 
               "^/(.*)$" => "/javaapp/$1" 
       )
        proxy.server = ( 
                "" => ( "javaapp" => ( "host" => "10.10.10.200", "port" => 8080 ) ) 
        )
      }
  }

but not work...why???

The system is:
- Ubuntu 9.04
- Lighttpd 1.4.22

Replies (3)

RE: Question about the use of proxy and rewrite. - Added by nitrox almost 14 years ago

Because url.rewrite-once within an $HTTP["url"] conditional doesn´t work.
Stated very clear at mod_rewrite.

RE: Question about the use of proxy and rewrite. - Added by andzsinszan over 13 years ago

Sorry about reopening this thread,
but is there an 'official' solution for the proxy-by-url + rewrite-url problem?

I've been reading blogs and posts for hours,
and only the following non-trivial solutions came up...

a) using mod_proxy_core (but requires lighttpd 1.5)
b) running another lighttpd just to break up $HTTP["url"] and rewrite_mod incompatibility
c) doing rewrite at the back-end server

Do I miss something? Is there a trivial solution?

CentOS 5.5
lighttpd 1.4.28

my setup:
lighttpd1.4 --> Apache2.2
--> Tomcat6

RE: Question about the use of proxy and rewrite. - Added by nitrox over 13 years ago

Mentioned list of options seems to be complete.

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