Apache2 / Tomcat redirect gives 404 error

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Hi All,

I have two sites hosted with SSL. I need to redirect the homepage (www.heretostay.com & www.heretogo.com) to the Tomcat servlet url:
http://www.heretostay.com/pressata/servlet/domain/heretostay/listMenuItemsForCategory.action
&
http://www.heretogo.com/pressata/servlet/domain/heretogo/listMenuItemsForCategory.action

I first used the mod_rewrite to accomplish this, but when you transfer from http to https, all the session varibles are lost.

When I tried to use redirect, I get 404 errors.

Here is the vhosts.conf with the code:

<VirtualHost 10.17.77.70:80>
ServerName www.heretostay.com
ServerAlias heretostay.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@heretogo.com
Setenv VLOG /home/heretostay/www/logs/heretostay.com
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/heretostay_access_log combined
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/heretostay_error_log
RewriteEngine ON
RedirectMatch ^/$ http://www.heretostay.com/pressata/servlet/domain/heretostay/listMenuItemsForCategory.action
# RewriteRule ^/$ /pressata/servlet/domain/heretostay/listMenuItemsForCategory.action [PT]
# RewriteRule ^/(.*)\.action /pressata/servlet/domain/heretostay/$1.action [PT]
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 10.17.77.71:80>
ServerName www.heretogo.com
ServerAlias heretogo.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@heretogo.com
Setenv VLOG /home/heretogo/www/logs
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/heretogo_access_log combined
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/heretogo_error_logCustomLog
RewriteEngine ON
RedirectMatch ^/$ http://www.heretostay.com/pressata/servlet/domain/heretogo/listMenuItemsForCategory.action
# RewriteRule ^/$ /pressata/servlet/domain/heretogo/listMenuItemsForCategory.action [PT]
# RewriteRule ^/(.*)\.action /pressata/servlet/domain/heretogo/$1.action [PT]
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 10.17.77.70:443>
ServerName www.heretostay.com
ServerAlias heretostay.com
Setenv VLOG /home/heretostay/www/logs/heretostay.com
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/heretostay_access_log combined
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/heretostay_error_log
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var
RewriteEngine ON
RedirectMatch ^/$ http://www.heretostay.com/pressata/servlet/domain/heretostay/listMenuItemsForCategory.action
# RewriteRule ^/$ /pressata/servlet/domain/heretostay/listMenuItemsForCategory.action [PT]
# RewriteRule ^/(.*)\.action /pressata/servlet/domain/heretostay/$1.action [PT]
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 10.17.77.71:443>
ServerName www.heretogo.com
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/heretogo.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/certs/heretogo.key
Setenv VLOG /home/heretogo/www/logs
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/heretogo_access_log combined
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/heretogo_error_logCustomLog
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var
RewriteEngine ON
RedirectMatch ^/$ http://www.heretostay.com/pressata/servlet/domain/heretogo/listMenuItemsForCategory.action
# RewriteRule ^/$ /pressata/servlet/domain/heretogo/listMenuItemsForCategory.action [PT]
# RewriteRule ^/(.*)\.action /pressata/servlet/domain/heretogo/$1.action [PT]
</VirtualHost>

I also tried some other variations on the syntax:

Redirect / http://www.heretostay.com/pressata/servlet/domain/heretogo/listMenuItemsForCategory.action
&
RedirectMatch (.*)


What mod is used for the redirect?

Any insight would be appreciated...

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