Hi Dave (again),
So... your Tomcat context config problem.
You've got mod_proxy setup to direct some requests to a Tomcat instance,
but you are sending those requests to a Tomcat that doesn't have any cfm
files in it's webapp.
try putting a single test.cfm (hello world type file) into the tomcat
docbase of the ROOT webapp, and then requesting it as normal.
/httpd/docs/your/static/stuff
/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/your/cfms
If we can get that to work, then we'll work out how to fix your app up
to get a useable result.
p
Dave Shuck wrote:
I have been trying to nail down how to configure the combination of Apache
2.2.4 + Tomcat 6.0.9 using mod_proxy to pass ColdFusion templates to an
instance of a ColdFusion server for processing which is loaded as an
application in Tomcat.
After some very helpful responses from Pid on the apache-users list, I am
furthering my discussion here as it appears that my issue lies with my
misconfiguration (or more aptly un-configuration) of Tomcat to make this
work. Below is the conversation that brought me to this list.
I am clearly open to the answer of 'rtfm', but I have been thusfar unable to
find the 'm' in which my answer exists. :)
I would be very grateful for any further advice on this issue.
Dave Shuck wrote:
I hate to spam up the list with this issue, but I have another question if
you
would indulge me. To strip this down a bit, let's just forget about the
multiple instances and say I have a single instance of Tomcat and have
installed ColdFusion as an application within it.
So far I have been able to forward .cfm files to ColdFusion via mod_jk and
ProxyPass, but neither was in the way that I expected. I haven't been able
to successfully process cfm files with the RewriteRule method. Perhaps the
problem is in my expectation rather than functionality.
Here is what I would expect to happen. In Tomcat there is a webapp
named "ROOT" which is where the ColdFusion web admin tools and such
installed. It's physical path is /usr/local/apache-tomcat/webapps/ROOT I
can
hit that with http://localhost:8080/......
ok...
Then in my httpd-vhosts.conf I
have a website that is pathed /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/whateversite. I
Ideally I want all my files to exist in the .../htdocs/whateversite
directory
and when I hit a .cfm file in that directory, I want that file to be
processed by the ColdFusion application.
yes...
When I used ProxyPass, any request to 'whateversite' would just forward the
request to the 'ROOT' site and expect the requested file to exist
in .../webapps/ROOT. Obviously this wasn't the answer.
that's because you told it to...
when the request comes in, you forward the request to tomcat, which
looked for it in the default application (ROOT) because you haven't told
Tomcat to look anywhere else.
Apache doesn't send the whole file over to Tomcat for processing, it
just abdicates responsibility for the requested url and expects Tomcat
to know what to do with it, and where to find it.
When I used mod_jk, any non-".cfm" templates would serve properly but when
it
went to serve the ".cfm" templates it would expect those to exist in
that "ROOT" directory rather in the "whateversite" directory just as
ProxyPass had. This was closer but still not the answer.
as above you've not configured your Tomcat to know where those files are.
I haven't yet gotten your suggestion working using RewriteRule, but would
this work as I was expecting where it would not actually re-route the
request
to look for the template in another directory, but actually process the
requested template through the application?
it doesn't process the file like a filter, a proxy instruction hands off
the request for processing by another server, then feeds the results
back to the client.
For what it's worth, I added this to the bottom of my httpd.conf file:
ReWriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^\/(.+)\.cfm(.+)? ajp://localhost:8009/$1.cfm$2 [P,L]
RewriteRule ^\/(.+)\.cfc(.+)? ajp://localhost:8009/$1.cfc$2 [P,L]
And this does exist in my Tomcat server.xml:
<!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 -->
<Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" />
When I put request a ColdFusion template it just serves the plain text back
from the template sitting in the "whatever" site. I am not seeing any
errors, but it just seems to do nothing with that ".cfm" request.
Again, I feel like I am just missing something that is probably painfully
obvious to others, but after reading and re-reading through the docs I am
just not finding the exact answer I am looking for.
Your Tomcat configuration isn't quite right yet.
You need to specify, either a docbase in the ROOT context with all your
cf? files in it, or add another context and direct all requests to that.
ask about configuring Tomcat webapps on the tomcat-user list & I'll look
out for you there.
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