How to configure URL rerwite on IHS that has plugins enabled for WAS

[rl...@us.ibm.com]

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 http://webserver/Analytics/abs.dll?Mainpage

However, I want this to happen instead.

When users navigate to http://webserver, I want them to hit the application at http://webserver/Analytics/abs.dll?Mainpage instead, but I want the URL to remain at http://webserver, 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

[rl...@us.ibm.com]

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

[Eric Covener]

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

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

--
Eric Covener