How to configure URL rerwite on IHS that has plugins enabled forWAS

Hi everyone,

I have a webserver and a application server with plugins configured to access the application from the IHS end.
The app can be accessed via [url]http://webserver/Analytics/abs.dll?Mainpage[/url]


However, I want this to happen instead.

When users navigate to [url]http://webserver[/url], I want them to hit the application at [url]http://webserver/Analytics/abs.dll?Mainpage[/url] instead, but I want the URL to remain at [url]http://webserver[/url], so it's not just a simple redirect.

I have tried using the apache rewrite. but it doesn't seem to be working. The problem is that it keeps looking for /Analytics/* on the physical IHS server file system. But of course these files/folders don't exist on the IHS server, they exist at the app server layer which is why we have a plugin.

This is what I have in the httpd.conf file:

RewriteEngine on
Rewrite ^/$ /Analytics/abs.dll?Mainpage


How can I solve this problem?

Thanks

an update:

i added the [R] flag, i have no idea what it does, but i saw some examples and gave it a try..


RewriteEngine on
Rewrite ^/$ /Analytics/abs.dll?Mainpage [R]


now when i hit [url]http://webserver[/url], it automatically redirects to [url]http://webserver/Analytics/abs.dll?Mainpage[/url], but the URL also shows as [url]http://webserver/Analytics/abs.dll?Mainpage[/url]. is there a way to make it show [url]http://webserver[/url] only? thx

[email]rlee@us.ibm.com[/email] wrote:[color=blue]
> an update:
>
> i added the [R] flag, i have no idea what it does, but i saw some examples and gave it a try..
>
>
> RewriteEngine on
> Rewrite ^/$ /Analytics/abs.dll?Mainpage [R]
>
>
> now when i hit [url]http://webserver[/url], it automatically redirects to [url]http://webserver/Analytics/abs.dll?Mainpage[/url], but the URL also shows as [url]http://webserver/Analytics/abs.dll?Mainpage[/url]. is there a way to make it show [url]http://webserver[/url] only? thx[/color]

[url]http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/httpserv/ihsdiag/plugin_alter_uri.html[/url]

You'll likely break a lot of your relative links when you start
inventing/removing subdirectories in the URL-path.

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Eric Covener