What are some best practices surrounding explicitly specifying context path?
I remember reading somewhere that said it is ignored and should not be used?
Is there any truth to this?
Instead of mod_jk do you think mod_proxy would make things easier for
something like this?
Rainer Jung-3 wrote:
>
> WillF wrote:
>> I am currently using mod_jk as the connector and I have Apache as a front
>> for
>> tomcat5 by adding something like
>>
>> JkMount /helloworld/* ajp13 to the httpd.conf
>>
>> So when I go to www.domain.com/helloworld/
>>
>> it forwards the request to tomcat and looks for the webapp who's context
>> path is helloworld. This is all fine and good
>>
>> but what if i wanted something like
>>
>>
>> www.domain.com/test/helloworld
>> and i use JkMount /test/helloworld/* ajp13
>>
>> how do i create the mapping then? Does it try to look for an app context
>> path of /test/helloworld?? In tomcat can you even have an web application
>> with that sort of path?
>
> Yes and yes.
>
> For multi-level context paths see e.g.
>
> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html
>
> and look out for the character "#".
>
>> Currently I have my Host container in server.xml set to www.domain.com, i
>> even tried to www.domain.com/test/ but i dont think that did anything.
>
> If you want to have a direct context path on the front end Apache then
> on the backend Tomcat, you can rewrite Requests and Location headers
> (Redirect) with mod_rewrite, but that's a little tedious and can be
> easily broken by the webapp (which can then be fixed with even ,more
> work with mod_substitute). Think twice, if you really need different
> context paths on the frontend and on the backend.
>
> For the request rewriting and redirect/cookie manipulation, mod_proxy
> might be in better shape then mod_jk (which has other strengths but not
> especially this area), for the correction of wrong links embedded in
> content, you might want to look ak mod_substitute, mod_sed or
> mod_proxy_html (note: mod_proxy_html != mod_proxy_http).
>
> Regards,
>
> Rainer
>
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