convert web.config rewrite rule to htaccess rewrite rule (All files without an extension to be processed as .cfm)

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I am moving a site from IIS 7 to Apache 2.4 and have the following web.config rewrite rule I am having trouble converting to .htaccess. The rule essentially allows for clean (seo friendly) urls by rewriting all files without an extension with the .cfm extension (e.g. www.mydomain/bag rewrites on the server as www.mydomain.com/bag.cfm. The working rule in web.config is shown below

<rule name="Rewrite all non extension requests to .cfm" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^(.*)$" />
      <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}.cfm" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" />
      </conditions>
      <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}.cfm" />
    </rule>

I have tried all the like posts I could find on here and unfortunately none of them worked for me. I am running Lucee 5.0 on CentOS 7 (Apache 2.4) if that matters. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

You should be able to customize this answer to use .cfm instead of .html: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5745490/rewrite-rule-to-add-html-extension — Jordan, Nov 29 '16 at 21:22
Thank you, yes I have tried that without luck previously. I am thinking it may have something to do with the ".cfm" file being proxy'd through tomcat after Apache. When I use the link you suggest I seem to get close as when I turn on logging I see the following. `strip per-dir prefix: /home/domain/public_html/bag.cfm -> bag.cfm applying pattern '^(.*)$' to uri 'bag.cfm' pass through /home/domain/public_html/bag.cfm Negotiation: discovered file(s) matching request: /home/domain/public_html/bag (None could be negotiated).` — Dave S, Dec 01 '16 at 15:29
By the time the htaccess is reached, it's too late to do a rewrite from non-.cfm to .cfm. — Kevin B, Dec 02 '16 at 16:15

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 22 '16 at 23:18

I don't really know about Tomcat; I assume you need Apache because Tomcat's no good for serving your non-script content.

You could set them up so that they both have the same document root, thus have congruent URLs, but have Tomcat listening on a different port, and not have that port open externally. Then you could proxy requests that are for (hidden) cfm files like so:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.cfm -f
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^\S++\s++([^?\s]++)(\?\S*)?
RewriteRule ^ http://127.0.0.1:8080%1.cfm%2 [NS,NE,P]
RewriteRule (?<=.cfm)$ http://127.0.0.1:8080/404.cfm [NS,NE,P]

The second rule is an example to pretend that the cfm files are not there if request directly.

You will need the appropriate proxy module(s) enabled.

convert web.config rewrite rule to htaccess rewrite rule (All files without an extension to be processed as .cfm)

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