> If there's something better

I've had good success with UrlRewriteFilter, which is very much like mod_rewrite.

   http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/


--Dave

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David Walker
Library Web Services Manager
California State University
http://xerxes.calstate.edu

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From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Simon Huggard
Sent: Sun 1/13/2008 10:53 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Using the balancer webapp in Jakarta tomcat



Hi all.

Has anyone used the balancer in Jakarta-Tomcat?
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/balancer-howto.html

I'm probably trying to get it to do something that it wasn't designed to
do, but has anyone got it to do a redirect to a new URL but with the
full URL - including the data at the end of the URL?

For example I'm trying to get it to do a simple redirect from the OLD URL:

   http://myurl.edu.au/balancer/somethinghere

to NEW URL:

   http://mynewurl.edu.au/balancer/somethinghere

I can't get this to work.

I've tried using the general redirect in the rules.xml file as follows:


   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <rules>
   <rule
   className="org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.AcceptEverythingRule"
     redirectUrl="http://newurl.edu.au/balancer/" />
   </rules>


But that just redirects everything to the static URL:

    http://newurl.edu.au/balancer/

And if I try to be clever, using the string match rule:



   <rule className="org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.URLStringMatchRule"
     targetString="*/"
     redirectUrl="http://mynewurl.edu.au/balancer/somethinghere/" />


this fails as well. I've tried putting asteriscs, variables (such as
$(URI)) and any other wildcards I can think of, but nothing works.

Has anyone been able to get the balancer application to just change the
URL Stem and filter that through to a new base URL with the rest of the
URL in tact?

If there's something better in Tomcat or another java-based container
out there that people are using (not Apache) I'd like to know what it is.

Many thanks,

Simon
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Simon Huggard
Systems Manager
Information Systems Department
Monash University Library
Monash University
Building 4, Monash University, Vic, Australia 3800
Phone: +61 3 9905 9138 Fax: + 61 3 9905 2610
Mobile: 0425 774 260 (International : +61 425 774 260)