On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 04:49:06PM -0400, Christopher Schultz wrote: > > I was asked to set up a Tomcat's proxy server in Windows (using XP SP2). > > Question 1: What is "Tomcat's proxy server"?
Apache Tomcat to act like a proxy server so other PCs, on the LAN, can go through it to access the Internet. Is this not a correct way to set up? > Are you talking about using another web server out in front of Tomcat? > That would make sense given the steps you've taken: > > > 1. Installed the required latest Sun's JRE v6u13. > > 2. Downloaded and installed > > http://www.archicentral.com/mirrors/apache/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.18/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.18.exe > > > > (Apache Tomcat Core). > > 3. Saw Apache Tomcat's system tray icon. I opened it up to see its > > screen, but did not seeing anything about proxy. > > Tomcat does not run its own proxy or anything like that. If you want to > run another web server in front of Tomcat, you'll have to install and > configure /that/ web server. > > It sounds like you're trying to set up Apache httpd (which is a web > server) so that it proxies (some?) traffic to Tomcat. Where is Tomcat > already running? If it's already running on another box, and this new > Windows machine is intended to be the "proxy", then your first step is > to uninstall Tomcat. Really. > > Next, download Apache httpd (you can find it here: > http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi). The latest version is 2.2.11. Get > the windows binary and install it. I thought Apache Tomcat already includes Apache. > Now, you'll be able to find things like httpd.conf (part of Apache > httpd). You will want to configure a module called mod_proxy_ajp or > mod_proxy_http (use the 'ajp' one if you want to use the binary > connector or the 'http' one is you want a plain-text connector... which > one should you use? it depends...). > > Basically, your configuration should look like this, in httpd.conf: > > ProxyPass [path to proxy] protocol://host/remote path > > For instance, if you were running Tomcat on a server called "scratchy" > and your web application's context path was "/itchy" and you had an HTTP > connector running in Tomcat on port 8080, then this would be an > appropriate setup: > > ProxyPass /itchy http://scratchy:8080/itchy > > On the other hand, if you were using the binary protocol on port 8009 > and everything else were the same, you would do this: > > ProxyPass /itchy ajp://scratchy:8009/itchy > > This should be enough to get you to ask a /lot/ of other questions. ;) -- "Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of men." --Mortimer J. Adler /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / E-mail: phi...@earthlink.net or a...@zimage.com ( ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
