Apache Rewrite Rule – Keeping URL Unchanged with Mod_Rewrite

apache-2.2mod-rewriterewrite

I have this rewrite rule

RewriteRule ^ar$       /index2.html

but i need to keep the url in the address bar unchanged after the redirect.
ie. if the user typed http://mydomain.com/ar i need to redirect him to /index2.html but keep the url as is.
any idea of how to do so??
Thanks for your help

Best Answer

What Lairsdragon said is correct. However, if you have more than one rewrite rule in your config, you will want to add the [L] flag to the end in order to prevent other rules from being applied.

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You need to proxy it with the [P] option. This also will require you to set up mod_proxy.

See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html and search for "force proxy".

Keep in mind that this will put additional load on your Apache. How much load is dependent upon how much traffic you receive and how quickly the Tomcat server can return traffic back to the Apache.

You could also just simply include /bar in your mod_proxy_ajp rules or mod_jk configuration (JkMount), which would be a far far better solution than using mod_rewrite.

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If you change the last line to proxy rather than redirect, I think that will get you the behavior you want:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/sites/%2 [P,L]

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