I have an AngularJS webapp and Jersey backend. I need to setup URL rewriting, so everything except given exceptions will be rewritten to Angular's index.html.
Eg.:
http://my.domain.com/about will be rewritten
http://my.domain.com/photos/photo1.jpg will NOT be rewritten (file photo 1 exists)
http://my.domain.com/rest/myservice will be NOT be rewritten (it is a call to REST service)
I have set up the Tomcat 8 URL Rewrite Valve as follows:
in conf/server.xml
<Host name="my.domain.com" appBase="webapps/MyDomainServer" unpackWARs="true"
autoDeploy="true"
xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.rewrite.RewriteValve" />
<!-- access logging, aliases,...-->
</Host>
in conf/Catalina/my.domain.com/rewrite.config
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^/rest.*
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^ index.html [L]
Tomcat ignores my rewrite settings, nothing is rewritten, no error/exception is in the log. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance.
I have tried to move RewriteValve to config.xml in META-INF and rewrite config to WEB-INF, but it behaved in the same way.
I have found the solution, problem was in wrong/faulty rewrite.config file. Correct should be:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(css|img|js|partials|rest|favicon).*$
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ /index.html [L,QSA]
On the first line are enumerated URIs which should not be rewritten. Everything else will be rewritten to index.html.