Hello All,
I am trying to work on Rewrite URL to achieve the following

End-user uses the URL https://www.actual.com/xy-test and I would need to put a rewrite rule to redirect them to another URL based on the Request URI (xy-test) , the actual end-point URI is https://www.application.com/ab-pro
In the entire request-response i will have to preserve the URL & URI so that the actual end user should never see https://www.application.com/ab-pro in his browser

I have tried the below

RewriteEngine On
 SSLProxyEngine on
 SSLProxyVerify none
 SSLProxyCheckPeerName Off
 SSLProxyCheckPeerCN Off
 RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(xy-test|ab-pro)$
 RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ https://www.actual.com/$1/ [R=301,L]
 RewriteRule ^/xy-test/?(.*)$ https://www.application.com/ab-pro/$1 [L,P]
 RedirectMatch ^/$ https://www.actual.com/xy-test

but the issue is once the request reaches the application ab-pro which is hosted on a tomcat container , Tomcat is doing a 302 redirect which i can see in the response header to the below

Location:https://www.actual.com/ab-pro and since ab-pro is not found on the apache it is throwing a 404 error

I was able to make it working by adding the below highlighted line , but with that approach user could notice the change in the Request URI from xy-test to ab-pro in the browser

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(xy-test|ab-pro)$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ https://www.actual.com/$1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^/xy-test/?(.*)$ https://www.application.com/ab-pro/$1 [L,P]
RewriteRule ^/ab-pro/?(.*)$ https://www.application.com/ab-pro/$1 [L,P]
RedirectMatch ^/$ https://www.actual.com/xy-test

Can you please kindly suggest me on how to handle this

[edited by: phranque at 4:58 am (utc) on Mar 30, 2017]
[edit reason] unlinked urls for clarity [/edit]