Hi Daniel,
Firstly, Thank you for your response.
Secondly, I must confess that I failed to grasp some of it due to my
ignorance of Unix. I understood the overall idea but found myself
scared/hesitant in implementing it as I'm using Win Server 2003. I'm a bit
perplexed by the contents you said I could add to workers2.properties as I
was not aware that fields were acceptable in such format. May be its the
type of connector you are using or maybe its just my lack of
experience/knowledge.
I did find a soulution of ***sorts** which I would like to share with all of
you so that you may comment/bash on its weaknesses/lamenesses thus helping
me in finding a better one:
*sigh* I just:
a) Removed the "127.0.0.1 my.server.com" mapping from the hosts file.
b) Added another Virtual Host to my server.xml file...resulting in something
like this:
<!-- Define the default virtual host -->
<Host name="localhost" ...>
<Listener className="org.apache.jk.config.ApacheConfig"
modJk="c:/apps/apache/apache2/modules/mod_jk-
apache-2.0.55.so" />
</Host>
<!-- Define the hack virtual host for external-facing-ip
requests>
<Host name="my.server.com" ...>
<Listener className="org.apache.jk.config.ApacheConfig"
modJk="c:/apps/apache/apache2/modules/mod_jk-
apache-2.0.55.so" />
</Host>
c) This happened to do the job, as now the file that Tomcat was
auto-generating for use by Apache had some lines that accounted for the
proper forwarding of external-facing-ip requests as well :)
These were not there earlier and the file I speak of is
"tomcat_home\conf\auto\mod_jk.conf" )
d) I still feel a bit jilted because my solution seems repetitive...there
are 2 virtual hosts that are located in the exact same place and to top it
off they have the same listeners inside them. They are identical in every
aspect.
I HAD tried entering <Alias>my.server.com</Alias> under the localhost
virtual-host but that did not seem to do the job... so I settled for having
this repitition.
Do let me know of your thoughts on this...
Cheers,
- Pulkit
On 12/25/05, Daniel Blumenthal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've set up my system so that Apache handles all requests, and forwards to
> the servlet when the path is www.mysite.com/myservlet/*.
>
> Following are my installation notes.
> (note that there's a slightly newer version of the JK connector)
>
> % tar zxf jakarta-tomcat-connectors-jk2-src-current.tar.gz
> % cd jakarta-tomcat-connectors-jk2-2.0.2-src/jk/native2
> % ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs
> % make
> % su
> % cp ../build/jk2/apache2/mod_jk2.so /usr/local/apache/modules
> % cp ../build/jk2/apache2/jkjni.so /usr/local/apache/modules
>
> make sure that httpd owns the apache directory
>
> tomcat/server.xml: make sure that the following connector is uncommented:
> <Connector className="org.apache.ajp.tomcat4.Ajp13Connector" port="8009"
> minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75" acceptCount="10" debug="0"/>
>
> create a "workers2.properties" file in /usr/local/apache/conf with the
> following contents:
> [logger]
> level=DEBUG
> [shm]
> file=/usr/local/apache/logs/jk2.shm
> size=1048576
> [channel.socket:localhost:8009]
> info=Ajp13 forwarding over socket
> tomcatId=localhost:8009
> [uri:/myservlet/*]
> context=/myservlet
>
> % touch /usr/local/apache/logs/jk2.shm
> % chown httpd /usr/local/apache/logs/jk2.shm
> % chgrp httpd /usr/local/apache/logs/jk2.shm
>
> add the following line to /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf:
> LoadModule jk2_module modules/mod_jk2.so
>
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Daniel
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pulkit Singhal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2005 1:12 PM
> > To: Tomcat Users List
> > Subject: Re: How to forward external-ip-facing requests from
> > ApacheHTTPServer to Tomcat?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thank you for the suggestion :)
> > I will give it a shot but I am really too deep into my setup
> > to be doing any big changes or something new! So while I try
> > to google and learn more about setting up mod_proxy, I would
> > really appreciate if someone can tell me:
> >
> > How do I go about configuring apache to forward the
> > outside-facing-ip requests to Tomcat through JK connector?
> >
> > This should be something pretty standard for anyone who has
> > ever moved Tomcat from a local testing env. (localhost) to a
> > production env. (real ip) ...right?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > - Pulkit
> >
> > On 12/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > use mod_proxy, much easier, and in our tests has proven to scale
> > > better, and you will wanna look for a directive called
> > > ProxyHostPreserve so that request.getServerName returns the right
> > > name, then the IP address will be stored in x-forwarded-for
> > header in
> > > the HTTP request.
> > >
> > > Filip
> > >
> > > > Hello Everyone,
> > > >
> > > > I have successfully configured Apache to forward requests to my
> > > > Tomcat instance. But it does so...only for requests whose IP
> > > > resolves to
> > > > 127.0.0.1
> > > >
> > > > If I try to access a page through apache server (that's
> > actually on
> > > > tomcat)
> > > > with the outside-facing-ip of my computer it fails.
> > > >
> > > > For example:
> > > > 1) URL: "http://12.34.56.78:666/blah/serveMe.html";
> > FAILS with
> > > a
> > > > 404 (apache does not forward properly)
> > > >
> > > > 2) URL: "http://12.34.56.78:8080/blah/serveMe.html";
> > SUCCEEDS
> > > > (tomcat seems to be ok when it gets the request directly,
> > so it has
> > > > to
> > > be
> > > > a
> > > > forwarding failure by apache in the previous case)
> > > >
> > > > 3) URL: "http://my.domain.com:666/blah/serveMe.html";
> > SUCCEEDS (I
> > > have
> > > > "
> > > > my.domain.com" mapped to "127.0.0.1" in my windows' hosts file)
> > > >
> > > > 4) URL: "http://localhost:666/blah/serveMe.html";
> > SUCCEEDS
> > > >
> > > > I think this happens because the 1st request (the one with the
> > > > outside facing ip) is not forwarded to Tomcat by apache.
> > > > a) The apache error logs show that Apache is trying to
> > look for the
> > > > page in the wrong place
> > > > b) The access logs ofcourse show a 404 because it can't find the
> > > > page to serve
> > > >
> > > > Now, I have read a few threads and been on a few forums and
> > > > apparently
> > > my
> > > > worker.properties file is supposed to be as simple as this:
> > > > ------------------------
> > > > worker.list=ajp13
> > > > worker.ajp13.port=8009
> > > > worker.ajp13.host=my.domain.com
> > > > worker.ajp13.type=ajp13
> > > > -----------------------
> > > >
> > > > I also tried putting my outside-facing-ip and localhost
> > as values for "
> > > > worker.ajp13.host" but it didn't seem to make any
> > difference at all.
> > > >
> > > > In that case I must ask all of you:
> > > > Question 1: How do I go about configuring apache to forward the
> > > > outside-facing-ip requests to Tomcat? If it is not done in
> > > > workers.properties...then where is it handled?
> > > > Question 2: Or am I wrong and it is actually handled by
> > > > workers.properties?
> > > > Even then, how?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance to all those who answer and all those
> > who take the
> > > time
> > > > to
> > > > read this.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > - Pulkit
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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