Topic: Rewrite to keep original URL works for http, not https, why?

[rickx20000]

Hello,

My TEST web server supports https website, the DEV server is configured for http.

I am having rewrite issue on TEST, but not on DEV. The details are following:

DEV:
I configure http://www-dev.royalcollege.ca/frm/index.html to rewrite to http://www-dev.royalcollege.ca/mssites/cbdpd/en/content/index.html, but keep the original url in user browser.

The rewrite works fine. On the browser, when I type http://www-dev.royalcollege.ca/frm/index.html, page content of http://www-dev.royalcollege.ca/mssites/cbdpd/en/content/index.html is displayed, and the short original path http://www-dev.royalcollege.ca/frm/index.html is still displayed as the URL instead of the full http://www-dev.royalcollege.ca/mssites/cbdpd/en/content/index.html. This is what I expect.

TEST:
When I type in https://www-test.royalcollege.ca/frm/index.html, rewrite works, but the full URL https://www-test.royalcollege.ca/mssites/cbdpd/en/content/index.html is shown in browser instead of the short original URL https://www-test.royalcollege.ca/frm/index.html. We expect the short/original URL displayed in browser.

The only difference between the DEV and TEST is the http vs. https.

The Web server configure entry is similar:

DEV:
RewriteRule ^/frm/(.*)$ http://www-dev.royalcollege.ca/mssites/cbdpd/en/content/$1 [P,L]

TEST:
RewriteRule ^/frm/(.*)$ https://www-test.royalcollege.ca/mssites/cbdpd/en/content/$1 [P,L]

It appears that the [P] parameter in Apache RewriteRule doesn't work for https, but for http.

Appreciated if there any idea /help,

Rick

[James Blond]

I wonder why you use the P(roxy) flag instead of just rewriting the path.

[rickx20000]

Since we have requirement to keep the original URL, I have to use the [P] flag. However, this works for http but not for https.