Are you using this with a cloud service? This seems more like a misconfig of your setup. I have seen this in AWS before where it routes to their internal IP due to a misconfiguration.
Owen Rubel oru...@gmail.com On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 6:26 PM Tom Robinson <tom.robin...@motec.com.au> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 at 15:50, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On 04/06/2024 05:07, Tom Robinson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > We are running a tomcat7 application > > > > You do realise that support for Tomcat 7 ended on 31 March 2021 don't > you? > > > > Yes, I do realise that tomcat7 is very old. We are running a legacy > application not of our design. > > > on our LAN which gets redirected from > > > a private, internal IP Address to an external ip address at which point > > it > > > fails. I can't find where this is happening. > > > > Is it an actual redirect - i.e. a 30x response? Or do you mean something > > else? > > > > If a redirect, does it redirect on the first request? > > > > OK, you are right, it's not a redirect (not a 30x response). I didn't think > to go into developer mode on the browser to check this until now. > > > Where and what can I check for this redirect and how to control it or > > > switch it off all together. > > > > Tomcat doesn't do this by default. > > > > Tomcat 7 doesn't have the redirect valve so it won't be that. > > > > Are you sure that the redirect is being issued by Tomcat? Might there be > > a reverse proxy in mix somewhere? > > > > No reverse proxies configured that I specifically know about. > > > > Other than that, it would have to be in the application code somewhere. > > > > In that case it must be as you say; i.e. in the code somewhere. > > > > > I browse to here on our LAN: > > > > > > https://myinternalhost.mydomain.com.au:8443 > > > > Check what myinternalhost.mydomain.com.au resolves to in terms of an IP > > address. > > > > Amongst other things, I administer the network, DNS and DHCP so I know that > the name resolution is correct. I have re-checked to confirm. > > Try requesting a page that won't trigger a directory redirect. Something > > like: > > > > https://myinternalhost.mydomain.com.au:8443/index.html > > > > You may need to adjust that for your application. > > > > I found this in tomcat7/webapps/index.jsp: > > # cat index.jsp > <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-logic" prefix="logic" %> > > <logic:redirect forward="logon"/> > > That's the entire file! I'm not really clued in to how that works but it > does look like a code based redirect. > > This whole query has come about because I've been trying to secure the > tomcat webapps with SSL. The certificate management in java is challenging > having to use yet another certificate management tool (keytool). > > I realise now that I've just browsed to a default webapp running on tomcat. > Further investigation shows that the other webapps (some 17 separate > webapps) are indeed working correctly and SSL secured. I think I just > panicked a little seeing the 'redirect' to an external IP and got > bogged down unnecessarily into that redirect. > > For example, if I browse to: > > https://myinternalhost.mydomain.com.au:8443/legacyapp1 > > the webapp runs, there is no redirect and it's SSL secured. The same for > legacyapp[2-17]. > > I appreciate and thank you for your help. > > Kind regards, > Tom > > > > > > > I end up here: > > > > > > https://a.b.c.d:8443/kb > > > > > > Where a.b.c.d is our external, ISP provided IP Address. > > > > > > Why is this happening and how can I fix it? > > > > > > *Kind regards,* > > > > > > *Tom Robinson* > > > *IT Manager/System Administrator* > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > > > > -- > *MoTeC Pty Ltd* > > 121 Merrindale Drive > Croydon South 3136 > Victoria Australia > *T: *61 3 9761 5050 > *W: *www.motec.com.au <https://www.motec.com.au/> > > > -- > <http://www.facebook.com/motec.global> > <http://www.youtube.com/user/MoTeCAustralia> > <https://www.instagram.com/motec_global/> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/motec-global> > > > -- > <https://www.thebatteryshow.eu/en/home.html> > > -- > > > Disclaimer Notice: This message, including any attachments, contains > confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose > and > is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient you should > delete this message. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this > message or the taking of any action based on it is strictly prohibited. >
