akkad wrote:
i have 2 web servers, one is apache tomcat v6, and the other is IIS v6, both
are on the same network,
the tomcat server is directly connected to the internet and also it has dhcp
which assign the IIS server
IP address, what am looking for is that when apache has an http request like
http://tomcatserver/index.html
then it will responses its index.html, but if it will receive a request like
http://iisserver/index.html then tomcat
should forward the request to the IIS server and then receive the response
from the IIS and redirect it to client
whom issued the request, so in short words, am wondering if tomcat is
capable to translate the requested URLs
and redirect them to a specific IP/Port, i read about connectors but am not
sure if apache connectors is what
really am looking for, any suggestions?
I don't really understand that bit above about ..and also it has dhcp
which assign the IIS server...
So ignoring for the moment the part about DHCP..
What it sounds like you want to do above, is make Tomcat act as a proxy
server for the IIS server.
I don't think Tomcat can do that (easily), and in any case it is not
something that Tomcat is really optimised to do.
What you should probably use in this case, is something else that sits
in front of Tomcat /and/ IIS, and distributes the requests to the
appropriate back-end.
You could do that easily with an Apache httpd server.
client -- Apache httpd -- tomcatserver/index.html ? -- Tomcat
-- iisserver/index.html ? -- IIS
In Apache, you could use mod_proxy to forward what needs to be forwarded.
You could also turn things around, and have your IIS server in front,
forwarding to Tomcat when needed.
Apache/Tomcat connectors, or IIS/Tomcat connectors, are modules that sit
at the level of a HTTP server front-end (Apache or IIS), and forward
requests to Tomcat (back-end).
The AJP redirector (for IIS), the mod_proxy_http and mod_proxy_ajp
and mod_jk modules (for Apache) are such Connectors.
For example, in the schema above, they are at the level where you see
tomcatserver/index.html ?.
But they do not redirect from Tomcat to something else, it's the opposite.
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