Hi,
I've been following this thread for a bit and can offer some of my
painfully gained insights. I have Apache, tomcat 5.0.28, mod_jk and
SSL.
This is not a real fix, just my workarounds.
It drove me nuts forever until I figured out that Apache webserver does
not successful apply rewrite rules to the JkMount directive.
In my httpd.conf:
#tomcat worker
JkWorkersFile "conf/workers.properties"
JkLogFile "logs/jk.log"
JkLogLevel info
JkMount /*.jsp jkworker
Under my virtual host port 80 I tested a few rewrite rules(the first
was to the 'admin' directory, the second was for all requests):
RewriteRule ^/admin/(.*)$ https://server.name.com/$1 [R]
RewriteRule ^.*$ https://server.name.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R]
The rewrite would work for non JkMount items, but the behavior seemed
to show apache just handing off the transaction to tomcat via the mount
BEFORE applying the rewrite.
(please check this for yourself, if you use a rewrite rule to a non
JkMount directory Apache should redirect it successfully)
Tomcat would not bounce it to port 443 because the rewrite rule was not
in the tomcat layer.
Our java programer ended up writing a custom jsp that redirected the
transaction to a SSL port.
I then made the redirect directory forbidden under non-SSL.
I suspect there maybe a more graceful way to do this please let me know
if you find it.
-Kiarna
