sasuke wrote:
Hello all.
I have recently started developing J2EE applications using Tomcat and have
come across a stumbling block. Suppose I want to run Tomcat in an
environment close to what it would be in production; to do I need to do the
following:
1.
• Make sure Tomcat is running on port 80 so that there is no need to
provide
the port number.
2.
• Make sure that hitting http://myhost.com/ brings up my custom application
and not the tomcat manager.
3.
• Make sure that a light web server like lighttpd or Apache is used for
serving static content and redirecting to tomcat when dynamic jsp
compilation is required.
4.
• Make sure that the sessions are persisted when the above arrangement is
put in clustered mode.
Hi.
I can't answer all your questions competently, but here is a start :
a) your requirements 1 and 3 above seem to be contradictory.
The usual way to do this is to have the "light" httpd server in front,
answering all requests to port 80.
Then, inside that front-end httpd server, there is a mechanism for
detecting which requests should go to a *background* Tomcat, and
re-direct these requests, in a way transparent to the client.
For example, using Apache and Tomcat, you would use the following setup :
- Apache answering on port 80
- a "re-director" module within Apache (like mod_jk), gets told which
URLs have to go to Tomcat, and intercepts those URLs.
The other URLs are served by the local httpd server.
- in Tomcat, a corresponding "connector" receives these requests, and
Tomcat processes them, and sends the response back through the connector.
- Apache receives the response from the mod_jk re-director, and sends
them to the client.
But, there are many people on this list that will tell you that if the
purpose is simply to serve some static pages, you do not need a
front-end http server, and you can do it all with Tomcat alone.
On the other hand, I believe that your requirement #4 means that you
must have a front-end server.
b) to have Tomcat respond to port 80 (assuming there is no other httpd
server that already does), is simple : just change the port number of
the HTTP connector in Tomcat's "server.xml" file. By default it is set
to 8080 or 8180, it's easy to find.
But decide first which architecture you want, because you cannot have 2
http servers (Tomcat and another one) both listening on the same port.
For 2 you need more expert help than I can provide.
But I believe it consists of deleting what is now the ROOT application
of Tomcat, and put yours in it's place.
Roughly.
Wait for more expert advice, or look at previous messages on this list.
This has been explained many times before.
André
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