Re: Apache 2.2.4 + Tomcat 6.0.9 using mod_proxy for ColdFusion

[Pid]

Dave Shuck wrote:
Sorry, I should have been more clear.  ColdFusion is properly processing files 
that are in the Tomcat webapp directory.

Here is where I currently am:   

If I put a cfm template into my httpd virtual site webroot ex: 
http://virtualsite1/helloworld.cfm
/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/virtualsite1/helloworld.cfm

It will display code in plain text.

If I then put that same file in 
/usr/local/apache-tomcat/webapps/ROOT/helloworld.cfm I can access it from 
http://localhost:8080/helloworld.cfm

That second one will process the code and display properly.  Just to be clear 
(and probably redundant), the goal is for that cfm template physically exist 
in my "virtualsite1" web root.   Additionally I would like to have 
a "virtualsite2" webroot that had the same behavior.

OK...

#1

You can define a series of virtual hosts in the tomcat/conf/server.xml
file.

 http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/host.html

for each host you should define a ROOT context.
the context xml file lives in the following location(s)

 tomcat/conf/Catalina/vhost1/ROOT.xml
 tomcat/conf/Catalina/vhost2/ROOT.xml


#2

Change the docBase of the ROOT application to match your apache htdocs
path.  The convention is that the default application literally lives in 
a directory called ROOT.  You should rename the Apache directory 
accordingly if you want to mix the files.

I split the directories as follows, with separate apache and tomcat dirs

/sites/host1/htdocs
/sites/host1/webapps/ROOT


server.xml

<Host name="host1" appBase="/sites/host1/webapps" ... >
  <Alias>www.host1.com</Alias>
  ...
</Host>



For your setup, move your whole app into the ROOT dir and alter the 
httpd.conf accordingly.

 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/virtualsite1/ROOT


the Host appBase in tomcat will be:

 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/virtualsite1

Tomcat looks for a ROOT application/directory in this location.



p



Thanks a lot Pid

~Dave



Thanks...

~





On Tuesday 13 February 2007 03:24:10 Pid wrote:
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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