Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-09 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Dear Mr. Schultz: Delighted to hear from you, and delighted that you weighed in on this. You've already earned my undying respect and gratitude. This also allows us to drop one more cert that we have to pay for, and I think it could lead to an easy way to drop yet another. On 4/9/20 3:31 PM,

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-09 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 4/9/20 1:37 PM, Peter Kreuser wrote: It should be sufficient to just do a Location directive and then Require. Require Dear Herr Kreuser: Thanks. I was beginning to wonder if Location might be the answer. -- JHHL -

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-09 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 James, On 4/6/20 15:53, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > Here is the situation: > > We have an existing Amazon EC2 instance, running Amazon Linux 2, > with an Apache httpd server already running our web sites (for > argument's sake, "foo.com," "bar.com,

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-09 Thread Peter Kreuser
Mark, James > Am 09.04.2020 um 22:14 schrieb Mark Eggers : > > James, > >> On 4/9/2020 12:11 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: >>> On 4/6/20 2:13 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: >>> # Secure your proxy - localhost for now - this is IMPORTANT >>> >>>Require ip 127 >>> >> Isn‘t this for CONNECT Reque

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-09 Thread Mark Eggers
James, On 4/9/2020 12:11 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > On 4/6/20 2:13 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: >> # Secure your proxy - localhost for now - this is IMPORTANT >> >>    Require ip 127 >> > > Dear Mr. Eggers: > > It seems I was right about how what you said about this, and what the > docs say ab

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-09 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 4/6/20 2:13 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: # Secure your proxy - localhost for now - this is IMPORTANT Require ip 127 Dear Mr. Eggers: It seems I was right about how what you said about this, and what the docs say about it, appeared to contradict each other: with that in the VirtualHost with

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-08 Thread Mark Eggers
On 4/8/2020 6:42 PM, calder wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2020, 18:11 James H. H. Lampert > wrote: > >> >> And as to vendor-supplied installations, I agree with you. I'm rather >> irritated with the "Debianism" of splitting Tomcat up so completely that >> webapp contexts can be in at least two differen

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-08 Thread calder
On Wed, Apr 8, 2020, 18:11 James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > And as to vendor-supplied installations, I agree with you. I'm rather > irritated with the "Debianism" of splitting Tomcat up so completely that > webapp contexts can be in at least two different places, and the general > "Linuxism" of *no

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-08 Thread Mark Eggers
James, On 4/8/2020 5:41 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > On 4/8/20 4:57 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: >> See >> https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxy >> for some examples. > > Yes. That's the very point in the documentation that has my head spinning: >>> For example, the following w

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-08 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 4/8/20 4:57 PM, Mark Eggers wrote: See https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxy for some examples. Yes. That's the very point in the documentation that has my head spinning: For example, the following will allow only hosts in yournetwork.example.com to access content via y

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-08 Thread Mark Eggers
On 4/8/2020 4:11 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > On 4/8/20 3:52 PM, Mark Eggers wrote:     Require ip 127 > > Dear Mr. Eggers (et al.): > > I'm still not clear on what that even *does* (and the official docs > leave me even more confused: "only allow hosts in . . . to access > c

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-08 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 4/8/20 3:52 PM, Mark Eggers wrote:    Require ip 127 Dear Mr. Eggers (et al.): I'm still not clear on what that even *does* (and the official docs leave me even more confused: "only allow hosts in . . . to access content via your proxy"); could you (or somebody else) explain it? Remem

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-08 Thread Mark Eggers
James, On 4/8/2020 3:27 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > Dear Mr. Eggers, et al.: > > Well, after running test installations of Tomcat on a whole string of > EC2 spot instances, I went ahead and installed it on the target server. > I've got it running, and enabled to start automatically, and I've

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-08 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Dear Mr. Eggers, et al.: Well, after running test installations of Tomcat on a whole string of EC2 spot instances, I went ahead and installed it on the target server. I've got it running, and enabled to start automatically, and I've added a security group to temporarily open 8080 to my office

Re: {[OT] Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-07 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I don't have enough reputation points to comment on your question on serverfault. Is your DocumentRoot (/var/www/html/test) underneath the default DocumentRoot (normally /var/www/html)? I found the problem, and it wasn't a [profanity] server problem; it was a [profanity] client problem! This

{[OT] Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-06 Thread Mark Eggers
On 4/6/2020 5:47 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > As it happens, I'm now struggling with an issue just trying to get a new > virtual host up and running on the httpd server. I've put it on Server > Fault, at: https://preview.tinyurl.com/rr3rxwa > > While it may not be necessary to solve this probl

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
As it happens, I'm now struggling with an issue just trying to get a new virtual host up and running on the httpd server. I've put it on Server Fault, at: https://preview.tinyurl.com/rr3rxwa While it may not be necessary to solve this problem in order to get the httpd server to proxy the Tomca

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-06 Thread Mark Eggers
James, On 4/6/2020 3:09 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > First of all, thank you, Mr. Malcom, Herr Kreuser, and Mr. Eggers. > > One thing I will note is that near as I can tell, mod_proxy and > mod_proxy_http are already present on the system (I can find > "mod_proxy.so" and "mod_proxy_http.so"),

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
First of all, thank you, Mr. Malcom, Herr Kreuser, and Mr. Eggers. One thing I will note is that near as I can tell, mod_proxy and mod_proxy_http are already present on the system (I can find "mod_proxy.so" and "mod_proxy_http.so"), but mod_jk does not appear to be present (no sign of a "mod_j

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-06 Thread Mark Eggers
Hi Jerry / James, On 4/6/2020 1:59 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: > Hi James, > > I've been using this precise setup for years, first on a dedicated > hosted server and recently on EC2/Linux2.  I use mod_jk. > > The first step is to make sure httpd recognizes all of the domain names > and subdomains. 

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-06 Thread Mark Eggers
James, On 4/6/2020 12:53 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > Here is the situation: > > We have an existing Amazon EC2 instance, running Amazon Linux 2, with an > Apache httpd server already running our web sites (for argument's sake, > "foo.com," "bar.com," and "baz.com."), and already getting its

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-06 Thread Jerry Malcolm
Hi James, I've been using this precise setup for years, first on a dedicated hosted server and recently on EC2/Linux2.  I use mod_jk. The first step is to make sure httpd recognizes all of the domain names and subdomains.  That includes the vhost definitions of all of the domains and subdoma

Re: Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-06 Thread Peter Kreuser
James, > Am 06.04.2020 um 21:53 schrieb James H. H. Lampert : > > Here is the situation: > > We have an existing Amazon EC2 instance, running Amazon Linux 2, with an > Apache httpd server already running our web sites (for argument's sake, > "foo.com," "bar.com," and "baz.com."), and already

Setting up Tomcat behind an existing Apache httpd server (on Amazon Linux 2)

2020-04-06 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Here is the situation: We have an existing Amazon EC2 instance, running Amazon Linux 2, with an Apache httpd server already running our web sites (for argument's sake, "foo.com," "bar.com," and "baz.com."), and already getting its certs from Let's Encrypt, using "foo.com" as the CN, with "www.