Im not sure about mod_proxy, but if you are using httpd2 you can write a
small mod_perl TransHandler to do the job:

  http://ziya.suzen.net/2007/09/url-rewriting-with-modperl.html

  if you do a lot of web programming, mod_perl is worthwhile learning, you
can do a lot of cool things with it.  Basically all the httpd2 internals are
exposed to mod_perl.

  -jmz

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Bryan O'Neal
<BONeal@cornerstonehome.com>wrote:

>  Using Apache2.  Rewriting mod_proxy was suggested to me, but I am not
> very good with that so I am still thinking, if I have to go that deep, I
> should perhaps just write a servlet filter for my app and have it set as
> part of the config file I use for deployment.
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:
> plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] *On Behalf Of *Joshua
> Zeidner
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:24 PM
> *To:* Main PLUG discussion list
> *Subject:* Re: Help with apache mod_rewrite
>
>
>   Bryan, you may have to write a custom handler in mod_perl.  Being that
> you are intercepting Tomcat requests, you may have to specify what phase you
> want to modify.  btw- are you using httpd 1 or 2?  -jmz
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Bryan O'Neal   <
> BONeal@cornerstonehome.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok, I lied the whole thing is mute because I can not get anything work
>> with tomcat.
>>
>> Here is the full deal, I have my developers working on there projects
>> with all the images being stored under /AppDir/Images/Page/image1.jpg
>> and with our set up of apache forwarding the request through an
>> encrypted ajp tunnel to tomcat that then forwards the image to apache,
>> which then delivers it to the user, it is just a bit slow and there is
>> no need for it.  What I want to do is rewrite it so instead of going to
>> /AppDir/Images/Page/image1.jpg on my tomcat server it just goes to
>> /Images/Page/image1.jpg on my apache server.  Any suggestions?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> For reasons I don't want to go into, I need to rewrite all references to
>> /dir1/dir2/ to /other_dir/ so that /dir1/dir2/file.ext goes to
>> /other_dir/file.ext and /dir1/dir2/dir3/file.ext goes to
>> /other_dir/dir3/file.ext and dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/file.ext goes to
>> /other_dir/dir3/dir4/file.ext, etc.
>>
>> I can rewrite /dir1/dir2/file.ext to /other_dir/file.ext no problem with
>> RewriteRule ^/dir1/dir2/(.*) /other_dir/$1 however I can not seem to get
>> it to preserve directories.  I do not mind writing additional rules to
>> escape the directories like RewriteRule ^/test/([^/\.]+)/(.*)
>> /other_dir/$1/$2 but that does not seem to work.  Any suggestions?
>>
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