Switch 302 redirect to 301 with Apache 2 ProxyPass in front of Tomcat 6

Question

I'm trying to optimise my site for SEO and it seems as though their is a 302 direct in action for the http requests.

I'm hosting my app on a Tomcat 6 server which lies behind an Apache 2 server. I use the ProxyPass method (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/proxy-howto.html) to forward all requests to port 8080 (the port my app is hosted on). I've seen a lot of advice on how to set the redirect type when using the VirtualHost method but none to do with ProxyPass.

The app is a Struts app that forwards users on to index.jsp when they hit the base url. Could this also be the issue?

I'm grateful for any help on this one! Cheers!

Answer 1

I'm not sure how to do this on struts, but you could do this on apache side.

In your configuration file, near ProxyPass directive add following:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/$ /index.jsp [R=301,L]