Apache + Tomcat with mod_proxy - redirect to www not working

Question

I have a problem trying to rewrite the root of my web from mywebsite.com/mywebsite to www.mywebsite.com/mywebsite.

The problem is related to the use of mod_proxy to invoke Tomcat

File proxy.conf

<ifmodule mod_proxy.c>
    ProxyRequests Off
    ProxyPreserveHost On

    <proxy *>
       AddDefaultCharset off
       Order deny,allow
       Allow from all
    </proxy>

    ProxyVia On 
    ProxyPass /mywebsite ajp://91.222.222.222:8009/mywebsite
    ProxyPassReverse /mywebsite ajp://91.222.222.222:8009/mywebsite

    <location miaplicacion>
        Order allow,deny
       Allow from all
    </location>
</ifmodule>

File .htaccess

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mywebsite.com [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mywebsite.com/$1 [NC,L,R=301]

The point is that the rule works OK if I write mywebsite.com/something. In this case it's correctly redirected to www.mywebsite.com/something

However It seems as if the proxy has preference over what is written in the rewrite rules. That is to say, when it finds mywebsite.com/mywebsite, instead of rewriting it to www.mywebsite.com/mywebsite and then invoke Tomcat, it calls it inmediately without touching the URL.

Do you know any way to force the rewriting of the URL before proxying to Tomcat?

yes, remove the ! before www on the first line (and the www. for what you want to do) — Jordan Denison, Oct 08 '12 at 19:29
That way the result is the same: when the content after / (mywebsite) is the same as what is between www. and .com it does nothing, just leaves it as mywebsite.com/mywebsite — codependent, Oct 08 '12 at 19:34
is your htaccess file in your document root? or is this in vhost config? — Jon Lin, Oct 09 '12 at 06:52
That's in my .htaccess file. Finally it seems to be something related to mod_proxy. — codependent, Oct 10 '12 at 19:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 08 '12 at 19:36

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Try this as your first line:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mywebsite.com$ [NC]

answered Oct 08 '12 at 19:36

Jordan Denison

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That is very odd then as it should be working... But this kind of question should be asked on server fault anyways : ) – Jordan Denison Oct 08 '12 at 19:43

Apache + Tomcat with mod_proxy - redirect to www not working

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