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Tomcat, Mod_rewrite, Mod_proxy: how do I keep the original URI path in a proxied request?

I'm using the following configuration to proxy requests and rewrite urls from Apache to Tomcat using mod_rewrite, mod_proxy.

# In apache virtual hosts

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On

...
# In .htaccess file

#forward non-resource URL to jsp
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)/?$ http://localhost:8080/mycontext/$1.jsp [P]

My question: is it possible to instruct Tomcat to keep the original URI so that I can read it using a request.getRequestURI()? Is this configuration possible or do I have to resort to mod_jk or some other proxy Connector?

The host name is retained currently... not the request path. I'm also using Apache 2.2 and Tomcat 6.

Solution

  • A not too cumbersome solution:

    RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)/?$ http://localhost:8080/mycontext/$1.jsp&_requri_=%{REQUEST_URI}

    Then read the request uri from the _requri_ query parameter.

    If there's a better way, please let me know.