Only one little addition below: On 11.04.2009 14:19, André Warnier wrote: > J Channel wrote: > [...] > > Hi. > Let me jump in here for a while. > > First, I think it would be clearer (and certainly more efficient), to > move your Rewrite rules away from a .htaccess file in docroot, and just > put them in your main Apache configuration files. > (I suppose that if you have access to the DocumentRoot, you have access > to the server (or virtual server) *.conf, yes ?) > > Second, I personally find another syntax clearer than JkMount, specially > when you need to combine it with other rules in Apache. > The main reason is that indeed, it is not always very clear which kind > of "priority" JkMount/JkUnMount directives have, vis-a-vis Apache > Rewrite, <Location> etc.. > > So, for example, instead of writing > JkMount /myapp workername > JkMount /myapp/* workername > > you can also do it as follows : > > <Location /myapp> > SetHandler jakarta-servlet > .... > </Location> > > This is explained here: > http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/reference/apache.html > > in the section entitled : > Using SetHandler and Environment Variables > > Basically, the <Location> section above means that anything > corresponding to a URI starting with "/myapp" will be passed on to > Tomcat. It is thus equivalent to the duo > JkMount /myapp workername > JkMount /myapp/* workername > > but, in my view, it gives you more flexibility at the Apache level, and > also fits better with the Apache "way of things". > I think it makes the respective priorities of mod_jk and RewriteRules > clearer, because they are the same as what they are in Apache between > Rewrite and <Location> blocks. > For example, if you load the mod_setenvif module in Apache, you can > exclude some URI's inside of that location using this kind of thing : > > <Location /myapp> > SetHandler jakarta-servlet > SetEnvIf REQUEST_URI "\.(css|gif|jpg|js|html?)$" no-jk > .... > </Location> > > meaning that URI's for files starting with "/myapp" but ending in one of > the extensions above will /not/ be passed to Tomcat (but the rest will).
... and you can also use mod_rewrite to set the environment variable "no-jk", which disables mod_jk forwarding. > You can also add a second <Location> like > > <Location /myapp/no-tomcat> > SetHandler none > .... > </Location> > > so that most things starting with "/myapp" will go to Tomcat, except the > ones starting with "/myapp/no-tomcat". > > And of course, you can use <Location>, <LocationMatch>, <Files>, > <FilesMatch> etc.. to similar effect. > > Which seems to me the kind of thing you want. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
