[users@httpd] building a web farm

2013-10-31 Thread trifo
Hi Folks, I am running a web site using Apache httpd on several server nodes to provide high availability and performance. At present, the web content resides on a clustered filesystem (GPFS) to ensure that all the nodes serve the same content in any moment. Well, GPFS is quite an expensive

Re: [users@httpd] building a web farm

2013-10-31 Thread Yehuda Katz
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:54 AM, trifo trif...@gmail.com wrote: I am running a web site using Apache httpd on several server nodes to provide high availability and performance. At present, the web content resides on a clustered filesystem (GPFS) to ensure that all the nodes serve the same

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Chris Arnold
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Chris Arnold carn...@electrichendrix.com wrote: Apache/2.2.12 (Linux/SUSE). We have a web app that runs under tomcat (8080). We have apache using mod_proxy (80 and 443). According to the tomcat mailing list: blockquote What we need is for apache to

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Yehuda Katz
Did you have a trailing slash in the ProxyPass? I would expect that it would have tried to get /share*/*share/. - Y On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Chris Arnold carn...@electrichendrix.comwrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Chris Arnold carn...@electrichendrix.com wrote:

Re: [users@httpd] building a web farm

2013-10-31 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 09:54:14AM +0100, trifo wrote: I am running a web site using Apache httpd on several server nodes to provide high availability and performance. At present, the web content resides on a clustered filesystem (GPFS) to ensure that all the nodes serve the same content in

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Chris Arnold carn...@electrichendrix.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Chris Arnold carn...@electrichendrix.com wrote: Apache/2.2.12 (Linux/SUSE). We have a web app that runs under tomcat (8080). We have apache using mod_proxy (80 and 443). According

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Chris Arnold
First of all, is /folder/, /path/ or /share/? You seem to have used them all so far.. please be careful when anonymizing your config that you aren't removing information that is necessary to determine what is wrong This really shouldn't matter what it is /folder /path/ or /share as long as i

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Chris Arnold
Did you have a trailing slash in the ProxyPass? I would expect that it would have tried to get /share / share/. Yes, i had a trailing slash and it did in fact tried to get /share/share. When i remove the trailing slash it gives me /shareshare

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Yehuda Katz
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Chris Arnold carn...@electrichendrix.comwrote: Did you have a trailing slash in the ProxyPass? I would expect that it would have tried to get /share*/*share/. Yes, i had a trailing slash and it did in fact tried to get /share/share. When i remove the

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Chris Arnold
The trailing slash is important. blockquote ProxyPass / https://192.168.123.3:8443/share /blockquote This is telling Apache to strip off the slash when it does the proxy. This is probably not what you want to do. I removed the trailing slash What URL are you using to access this

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Chris Arnold carn...@electrichendrix.com wrote: First of all, is /folder/, /path/ or /share/? You seem to have used them all so far.. please be careful when anonymizing your config that you aren't removing information that is necessary to determine what is

[users@httpd] Apache with MQ

2013-10-31 Thread Guilherme Teles
Dear all, I´m building an infrastructure with 4 servers. 2 Frontend, and 2 Backend servers. My backend servers contain Linux Suse 11 SP3, With MQ 7 and Broker 7.0. My Frontend servers have Suse 11 SP3 with Apache 2.2.12. Right now, i could use Apache as Proxy for webservices as URL´s. But my

[users@httpd] Is there a server optimizing tool to use with Apache

2013-10-31 Thread Rose, John B
Is there an optimization tool like idsktune specific for Apache Web Server? http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19199-01/816-6400-10/idsktune.html Thanks

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Yehuda Katz
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Chris Arnold carn...@electrichendrix.comwrote: The trailing slash is important. ProxyPass / https://192.168.123.3:8443/share This is telling Apache to strip off the slash when it does the proxy. This is probably not what you want to do. I removed the

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Chris Arnold
What URL are you using to access this vhost? If you want to access https://example.com/share/ and have that hit the proxy, you would need to make the proxy config blockquote ProxyPass /share/ https://192.168.123.3:8443/share/ https://share.example.com which will end up being

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Yehuda Katz
Is HTTPD giving that error or Tomcat? What does the log say is the reason? - Y On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Chris Arnold carn...@electrichendrix.comwrote: What URL are you using to access this vhost? If you want to access https://example.com/share/ and have that hit the proxy, you

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Chris Arnold
Is HTTPD giving that error or Tomcat? HTTPD What does the log say is the reason? Directory index forbidden by directive: /srv/www/htdocs

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Yehuda Katz
What about when you go to https://share.example.com/share/? - Y On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Chris Arnold carn...@electrichendrix.comwrote: **Is HTTPD giving that error or Tomcat? HTTPD What does the log say is the reason? Directory index forbidden by directive: /srv/www/htdocs

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Chris Arnold
What about when you go to https://share.example.com/share/ ? If i remember right, this gave the same error. As i try different things and think about this, i am going to need multiple clients to access this web app securely like so https://share.anydomain.tld and will need apache to send

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Yehuda Katz
Are you accessing this URL from a web browser or a dedicated program? The implication is that your client might be requesting (or the web application redirecting to) https://share.example.com/share/ which you are rewriting to already include the /share/, therefore, the doubled share. - Y On

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Chris Arnold
Are you accessing this URL from a web browser or a dedicated program? The implication is that your client might be requesting (or the web application redirecting to) https://share.example.com/share/ which you are rewriting to already include the /share/, therefore, the doubled share.

Re: [users@httpd] building a web farm

2013-10-31 Thread trifo
Thanks for the replies. Well, I forget to mention that we run on AIX, not on Linux. And so it is. The files MUST be consistent in any moment of time. There is a period of time when a lot of pages are changing in every 5 minutes. Well, rsync is used to push the changes, mixed with some other

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Yehuda Katz
When you say And this gives me a 403 access denied., you need to also include the exact URL that you entered in the browser (minus the hostname if you want). If you have the rewrite rule: *RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://192.168.123.3:8443/$1 [P]* and you navigate to https://share.example.com/, you

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Chris Arnold
Sent from my iPhone On Oct 31, 2013, at 10:06 PM, Yehuda Katz yeh...@ymkatz.net wrote: When you say And this gives me a 403 access denied., you need to also include the exact URL that you entered in the browser (minus the hostname if you want). Sorry, https://share.example.com If you

Re: [users@httpd] Another mod_proxy Question/Issue

2013-10-31 Thread Yehuda Katz
Just to close the discussion here: Chris sent me the real domain name and I had a look: The issue is actually that the ProxyPassReverse is not correct. Requests for the main page come back with a 302 pointing to /share/ and all assets used also have /share/ at the beginning of their path. I will