Topic: rewrite and redirect not working in v2.4.29 after upgrade

[robnye]

Hello,

I am a newbie to Apache configuration and was tasked with upgrading Apache from v2.2 to v2.4 on a windows 2012 R2 server, all seemed to go well, until I had problems in v2.4 with the rewrite rule
so I attempted to change it to use a redirect rule.

In v2.2 it was setup to use rewrite commands, these didnt seem to work when applied to the v2.4 config, so I changed it to use redirect command.

I have checked that I'm loading the mod_rewrite module

now I am confused as some urls work and some dont when using v2.4. Yet if I revert back to v2.2 everything is fine.

We have internal and external users all coming in via the same Apache webserver,
I need to force all urls to convert to the https://robs.test.co.uk/test_ext, so the users can use SSL.

following are results using rewrite rule (as set in the v2.2 Apache httpd-vhosts.conf file)

RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ https://robs.test.co.uk/$1 [R]

http://robs.test.co.uk - converts to https://robs.test.co.uk/test_ext/ - successful ext user login
http://robs.test.co.uk/ - converts to https://robs.test.co.uk/test_ext/ - successful ext user login
http://robs.test.co.uk/test_int - converts to https://robs.test.co.uk/test_int - successful login
https://robs.test.co.uk/test_int - no conversion - successful login
https://robs.test.co.uk - converts to https://robs.test.co.uk/test_ext/ - fails with 403 Access Denied error
https://robs.test.co.uk/ - converts to https://robs.test.co.uk/test_ext - fails with 403 Access Denied error
https://robs.test.co.uk/test_ext - no conversion - fails with 403 Access Denied error

and using redirect rule (as set in the v2.4 Apache httpd-vhosts.conf file)

Redirect "/" "https://robs.test.co.uk/"

http://robs.test.co.uk - converts to https://robs.test.co.uk/test_ext/ - successful ext user login
http://robs.test.co.uk/ - converts to https://robs.test.co.uk/test_ext/ - fails with 403 Access Denied error
http://robs.test.co.uk/test_int - converts to https://robs.test.co.uk/test_int - successful login
https://robs.test.co.uk/test_int - no conversion - successful login
https://robs.test.co.uk - converts to https://robs.test.co.uk/test_ext/ - fails with 403 Access Denied error
https://robs.test.co.uk/ - converts to https://robs.test.co.uk/test_ext - fails with 403 Access Denied error
https://robs.test.co.uk/test_ext - no conversion - fails with 403 Access Denied error

to add to the confusion there is some addtional config for rewrites in the httpd-ssl.conf which maybe whats confusing the switch from http to https

# setup default environment
RewriteRule ^/$ /test_ext/ [R,L]
#
# fix the Home link on app menu - has no closing /
RewriteRule ^/(.*)_ext$ /$1_ext/ [R,L]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)_int$ /$1_int/ [R,L]

any pointers greatly received

[James Blond]

Use a rewrite log file and might bring some light into it. Also You may check the access and error log.

[robnye]

it turns out that the userid I was given to test with wont work with the default url test_Ext hence why I couldnt validate the redirect.

Since then I have been given another test userid that does work on the default url

the 'redirect' rule wasnt required as teh old 'rewrite' rule did actually work

I dont feel daft at all