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HTTP Rewrite to HTTPS proxy works but direct HTTPS doesn't proxy

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After looking this over I've located the issue but haven't determined how to best implement the resolution.

The problem is that when folks access HTTP (via httpd-vhosts.conf) the configuration Rewrites the URL as https://www.yippyskippy.com/ClusterTester$1

When end-users bypass the HTTP configuration and go directly to HTTPS the httpd-ssl.conf file has been configured to expect that the Rewrite has already occurred and that the /ClusterTester$1 suffix already exists.

Because the original httpd-vhosts.conf Rewrite command is bypassed, the httpd-ssl.conf configuration tries to proxypass the incorrect URL string to the back-end Glassfish server resulting in the original error.

Now I'm trying to determine how/where to best place the Rewrite command (I'm assuming within the httpd-ssl.conf virtual hosts section) while still maintaining the redirect from HTTP to HTTPS.

posted Jun 25, 2013 by anonymous

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