apache + tomcat5 + vhosts

nadin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 103

Hello,

I already have apache and tomcat working together using mod_jk. I need help trying to get vhost to do the following

say I have a webapp called myapp, which is accessibale from mydomain.com (using apache vhosts)

so mydomain.com is being taken care of by apache, whereas mydomain.com/myapp is being taken care of by tomcat.

How do I setup vhosts such that

mycompany.com - > mydomain.com/myapp?

when I tried the following

DocumentRoot = /opt/tomca5/webapps/myapp
ServerName mycompany.com

I get a primessions denied error

Any idea?

Nadin

tuxmin · l33t Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 838 Location: Heidelberg

You cannot access the tomcat webapps dir from apache directly. There are no html files in there! These are generated by tomcat and deliverd to apache either via ajp (mod_jk) or http.
To use http you have to make sure tomcat's http connector is configured (this should be true for the default installation).
you can verify by connecting to tomcat directly

http://tomcat.host:8080/myapp/

which should display your application.
Put the following lines in your httpd.conf

nadin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 103

Thanks

I already have mod_jk setup.

I will try what you are saying shortly, but I do not believe my questions was very clear

if I have apache.com/myapp working, where myapp is a tomcat project,

i want to do

myapp.com
such that I would see the same as apache.com/myapp

just like I can do webmail.apache.com which would be the same as apache.com/mail

thanks

Nadin

tuxmin · l33t Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 838 Location: Heidelberg

OK,

if I get you right you have to setup a namebased virtual as described here

In your case it would look like this

nobspangle · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 4:40 pm Post subject:

You could use a redirect something like

tuxmin · l33t Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 838 Location: Heidelberg

Wouldn't you create a loop with that?

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nobspangle · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:44 pm Post subject:

I don't see why, your saying if someone types in http://myapp.com then redirect them to http://mydomain.com/myapp which forwards them on to the tomcat server.

tuxmin · l33t Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 838 Location: Heidelberg

Of course you're right... I didn't notice the different host names :oops:

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nadin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 103

Ok, when I tried the proxy pass thingy, it keep loopiing back and forth, when I removed the proxy pass reverse, it worked but when I go to

www.myapp.com

i get forwarded to www.domain.com/myapp
also, the brower url changes to it.

What I need is the for the user to only see www.myapp.com

and I was unable to get redirect directive to work at all.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Nadin

nobspangle · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:48 am Post subject:

In your workers2.properties you could try chaging the uri directive to
[uri:myapp.com/*]

I think that would serve anything asking for myapp.com from the webapps root in the tomcat directory.

But this isn't quite what you wanted because you can't have myapp1.com and myapp2.com pointing to different applications on the same server.