Rick, I'm pretty sure that this is the same issue that I've experienced. First, try mapping to "/bodypainting/" instead of "/". See if you get a cookie there. Then, if you have a browser that allows you to inspect session cookies (mozilla is good for this), check the path of your session cookie. You should find that it's "/bodypainting". The problem is that the cookie path is determined by Tomcat, not by Apache, and Tomcat gives every webapp a cookie with the path of the webapp as tomcat would determine it; so since Tomcat thinks the path is "/bodypainting", the cookie path doesn't change just because you're using mod_proxy. So when you go to visit the page at "/", the cookie is ignored because it doesn't have the right path.
The only way I can think of to solve your issue so far is to solve the path issue with Tomcat- you need to map your webapp to 'http://localhost:8000/' instead of 'http://localhost:8000/bodypainting/'. There are two ways I can think of to do this: 1. move your 'bodypainting' webapp into the "ROOT" webapp. 2. Uncomment and change the docBase path in server.xml: <Context path="" docBase="bodypainting" debug="0"/> That should do the trick, hopefully. Let me know how that works for you. Best of luck! Liam Morley Rick Mills wrote: >Hi > >I am experiencing a problem with session tracking when using Apache 2.0.39's >mod_proxy module to connect to my Tomcat 4.0.3 instance. > >I have a servlet which checks to see if a session exists, and if not, >creates a new session. > >When testing on a standalone instance of Tomcat, all works as expected. I >start up a browser session to my site, and the servlet creates a new >session; this session persists for subsequent requests to my site. > >However, when going via Apache to Tomcat over mod_proxy, my servlet is not >recognising that I have already set up a session on subsequent calls to >Tomcat, and is creating a new session each time. > >The "Virtual Host" configuration in Apache's httpd.conf to set up the proxy >connection to Tomcat is as follows: > ><Virtual Host *> > ServerName www.bodypainting.co.uk > ProxyPass / http://localhost:8000/bodypainting/ > ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8000/bodypainting/ ></VirtualHost> > >The entry in my Tomcat server.xml for handling the proxy connection is as >follows: > ><Connector className="org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpConnector" > port="8000" minProcessors="3" maxProcessors="75" > proxyName="localhost:8000" proxyPort="80"/> > >Just wondered if anyone else had experienced anything similar, or if anyone >has any ideas. > >Incidentally, I've already experimented with using mod_jk and mod_webapp to >connect Apache to Tomcat, but found that mod_proxy was by far the simplest >method, especially given that all content from my site will be served up by >Tomcat, and I don't need any static pages served up by Apache. > >Kind regards >Rick Mills > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
