On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 08:59 -0500, Dimitrios Christodoulakis wrote: > Hello, > > I have been struggling for the past couple of weeks to redirect > external traffic from the Apache 2 server to Tomcat 5.5 on a godaddy > dedicated server. > > We have created a new domain on the server, which default public path > is /home/myadmin/public_html/ when someone points there browser to > www.mydomain.com > > At the same time I have uploaded and deployed the application under > usr/java/tomcat-5.5/webapps/mydomain/ > > As I understand at this time web content is served by the apache > server and not Tomcat. What I have been trying to do is to have all > pages static and dynamic be served by Tomcat. > > Godaddy offers limited support unless we buy into their assisted > service plan. I followed some steps they initially suggested which > involved creating a symbolic link between the default public directory > /home/myadmin/public_html/ and the application directory > usr/java/tomcat-5.5/webapps/mydomain/ by using the command: > > ln -s /usr/java/tomcat-5.5/webapps/mydomain/index.html > /home/myadmin/public_html > > With this I hoped all requests from www.mydomain.com going to > /home/myadmin/public_html would be automatically redirected to the > actual tomcat content starting with the deployed application's > index.html page. But unfortunately this does not work. I am always > returned the 404 error message. > > Is there a known or recommended way to resolve this issue? After some > searching I believe there are workarounds involving editing the > /usr/java/tomcat-5.5/conf/server.xml and the etc/httpd/conf/http.conf > files. Would it be possible someone to provide some general steps how > to do this? > > Many thanks for any practical help. >
Well this is how I do it, your mileage will vary. I use mod_proxy_http with tomcat configured for just a http connector. T I setup a mod_proxy.conf file for the apache and I'll just show how I do it for the tomcat examples. Apache serves the statis html & images, the jsp/servlets are fed by tomcat. __BEGIN__ <IfModule mod_proxy.c> ####################################################################### # MOD_PROXY CONFIGURATIONS # ####################################################################### LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so ProxyRequests Off # Make sure that the virtual host name is passed through to the # backend servlet container for virtual host support. ProxyPreserveHost On # Tell mod_mod proxy that it should not send back the body-content of # error pages, but be fascist and use its local error pages if the # remote HTTP stack is sending an HTTP 4xx or 5xx status code. ProxyErrorOverride On ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/ <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> RewriteLog logs/rewrite_log RewriteLogLevel 1 Alias /examples "/opt/webBaseDir/webapps/examples" <LocationMatch "/examples"> <LimitExcept POST GET PUT> Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from none </LimitExcept> # The nastiness begins, let's fire up the "rewrite engine" RewriteEngine On # Everything ending in ".gif", ".jpg" or ".jpeg" will be served again # directly by Apache, no need to bother the servlet container. As above # this is the last rule as specified by the [L] flag at the end RewriteRule \.(pl|php|cgi)$ - [PT,L] RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|html)$ - [PT,L] # Everything that starts with a NON-CASE-SENSITIVE match (the NC flag) # of "/WEB-INF" or "/WEB-INF/" is forbidden (the F flag). And again, # this is the last rule (the L flag), nothing will be processed by the # rewrite engine if this rule is matched RewriteRule "^.*/WEB-INF/?(.*)" - [L,F,NC] # Any jsp, jspx, do, servlet get proxied RewriteRule \.(jsp|jspx|do) "http://localhost:8080%{REQUEST_URI}"; [P,L] RewriteRule "^/(.*)/servlet/(.*)" "http://localhost:8080%{REQUEST_URI}"; [P,L] </LocationMatch> </IfModule> __END__ -- Brian Millett - [ Sinclair, Zathras, and Garibaldi, "Babylon Squared"] S: "Why do you need Babylon 5?" Z: "Zathras tell, you let Zathras go? Finish what Zathras came for?" G: "Zathras tells maybe we don't break Zathras scrawny little neck."
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