Topic: RedirectMatch not working in 2.4

[fitzgerac]

So I have been upgrading our Apache 2.2 32bit servers to Apache 2.4.18 64bit on several Windows 2008R2 hosts.

Within the 2.2 config, we have a RedirectMatch rule, like this:

RedirectMatch ^/$ http://server/path/

This rule simply redirects all requests for the root / to the same server but adds the /path/ to it. This rule works great in Apache 2.2 on this same server, and Apache 2.4 on OTHER servers. The only difference on the other servers is that the RedirectMatch is in a vhost context, whereas on the broken server, it is in the general area of httpd.conf.

It's almost as if mod_alias is not having any effect, although the syntax of httpd.conf checks out and there are no errors at startup or runtime.

I have already tried reinstalling the VC+ runtimes, building a completely new httpd.conf, copying over the Apache binaries again. I know I can load the rewrite module and get a ReWriteRule to work, but we want to stick with RedirectMatch because that is what has been fully tested in DEV already.

Any thoughts? thanks in advance!

[fitzgerac]

For any one who finds this, I think I found the problem although I can't explain why...

We are using this Apache 2.4 server as a proxy to a backend Weblogic web server, so we also load the mod_wl_24.so module. When this module was loaded the RedirectMatch rule seemed to be ignored.

So I pored over a working Apache 2.4 server that is also a proxy to Weblogic, and uses a similar RedirectMatch rule, and found that the only difference was that this working server used vhosts.

So, on the broken server, I simply enabled mod_vhost_alias.so, even though I am not configuring any vhosts anywhere else in the config. Now the RedirectMatch rule is working.

Anybody have any idea why this would be the fix?

[James Blond]

I guess that the web logic module needs vhost alias module to work proper aka uses some functions from it.