André Warnier wrote:
Bocalinda wrote:
Yes, that would be /SEDO/index.jsp

Ok, now a simple test :
When, instead of requesting
http://yourserversip/SEDO
if you request in your browser
http://yourserversip/SEDO/index.jsp
then your relative image links are working, right ?
(provided the images are really there)

Now replying to my own previous post, because I want to go to bed and so you would not have to wait for the conclusion :

My reasoning is that the browser does what it does, and what it does is right : if it sees the link <img src="image.gif"> in a page that it received when it requested
http://server/SEDO
the it will request
http://server/image.gif
for the image.
So far, ok for the browser, but that does not resolve your problem.

To resolve your problem, the browser must known that when it requested
http://server/SEDO
what it really got was
http://server/SEDO/index.jsp
so that it can interpret the link <img src="image.gif"> as the request URL
http://server/SEDO/image.gif

The way to tell the browser that, would be that when it requests
http://server/SEDO
it receives a response from the server saying "no no, that's not there, but it's here instead" :
http://server/SEDO/index.jsp
That is called a re-direct, or a 301/302 response.
The browser, when it receives this, will (automatically and transparently) request again the resource, but this time as
http://server/SEDO/index.jsp
and following that, it will correctly interpret <img src="image.gif"> as
http://server/SEDO/image.gif
(or http://server/SEDO_NEW/image.gif as the case may be)
which URLs will be proxied to Tomcat and thus properly load-balanced.
CQFD

So now, the trick consists in having your server, upon request of
http://server/SEDO
to send back a re-direct to
http://server/SEDO/index.jsp
and that is probably a matter for mod_rewrite, or maybe just a configuration directive in Apache.
(See the Redirect* directives)
Note : in the URL to "redirect to", make sure that you specify it with a leading "http://server";, because otherwise Apache may get smart and do an internal re-direct, which would not be known by your browser, and thus defeat the above logic.

Hope this helps, as they say.










2008/11/17 André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bocalinda wrote:

Hi André.
I'm glad we managed to understand eachother :)


Sorry, maybe I did not use the correct example before, but that is wrong.
If you original request is
http://172,18.0.1/SEDO
and from there, your browser receives an html page (wherever it came
from),
and that html page contains a link <img href="image.gif">, then the
browser
will request
http://172,18.0.1/SEDO/image.gif

wait a minute.. maybe it won't. Because it would remove the "SEDO", for
being the last path component, and replace it by "image.gif".
Now I think I get it.
The browser would have to know that it is not really getting "SEDO", but
 /SEDO/something.
Hmmm.

I guess that the only way to make this work (if you cannot change the
<img>
links in the pages), would be to force a re-direct to the real thing,
when
the browser requests "SEDO".


That's what I tried before. But the thing is that I don't know where to
redirect to, because:

a. I don't know whether image.gif belongs to SEDO or SEDO-NEW
b. I don't want to hardcode a Tomcat URL, because that server could be
down.

 What is the resource that the browser really obtains when it requests
http://172,18.0.1/SEDO ?
(this must be something on your Tomcats)


The resource in the browser remains http://172.18.0.1/SEDO all the time.
While I see the following in my apache error logs:

No such file or folder /htdocs/image.gif  (More or less, I'm not behind
that
computer right now).

I'm puzzled.
I think it may have to do with ProxyPassReverse not being set properly.


 Wait. I repeat :
What is the resource that the browser *really* obtains when it requests
http://172.18.0.1/SEDO ?
(this must be something on your Tomcats)
Let's forget for the time being about "image.gif". It is the step before
that, which interests me.
When the browser requests "http://172.18.0.1/SEDO";, it first gets an html page. That page is probably defined as being your "Welcome document" for
that directory in Tomcat.  What is that document ?
Put another way, which equivalent URL could be used to get the same page
from Tomcat ?
(Maybe "index.jsp" or something ?)


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