Hello Melanie, I share André's vision :
#1 To get the root context http://www.robotronics.org/ forwarded to Tomcat, the easiest way is to declare your java application as the root context of your Tomcat (either naming it ROOT.war or declaring it with path="" in server.xml according to your deployment method). #1.1 If you cannot rename your tomcat app to serve Tomcat's root context, look at context rewriting ; it would look like : ProxyPass / http://my-tomcat:9080/Robotronics ProxyPassReverse /Robotronics http://www.robotronics.org/ #2 You can mix the approach #1 to serve most of the http://www.robotronics.org/ content including the root context with Tomcat with serving sub parts of the web site directly from Apache Httpd or from other servers. ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPass /handle/in/httpd/rather/than/in/tomcat ! ProxyPass / http://my-tomcat:9080/ #3 Some people are afraid about performance cost of serving static content from Tomcat rather than from Apache Httpd. For such problems, I feel the solution resides more in the usage of standard HTTP caching header Expires and Cache-Control combined with mod_expires and mod_disk_cache rather than in copying static resources on Apache Httpd. #4 I slightly disagree with André on asking Tomcat to listen on port 80 ; I am very reluctant to this approach as it requires to run the JVM as root ; I prefer the iptables approach (well described in the in the rimuhosting doc you referred - 1). Hope this helps, Cyrille 1) http://rimuhosting.com/mod_jk2_and_mod_proxy_ajp.jsp#iptables -- clecl...@xebia.fr http://blog.xebia.fr On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:37 AM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > > Melanie wrote: >> >> Thanks Cyrille for the information. This looks like it's a quick fix but >> there is still another issue. >> >> The Tomcat Startup Page is now being served, but not the actual springapp >> J2EE web application that is located in the Tomcat directory ---> >> /usr/java/tomcat-5.5/webapps/springapp >> >> Do you know the way to bring up the actual J2EE webpage instead of the >> Tomcat Startup Page when the URL >> http://www.robotronics.org is served by Apache and Tomcat? >> > Melanie, > > backing up a little bit.. > > According to your various posts, originally, you have, on the same host : > > - an Apache httpd, answering on http://www.robotronics.org (port 80), which > serves html and javascript documents > - a Tomcat engine and an application in it, answering on > http://www.robotronics.org:9080/Robotronics (thus port 9080, and a URI > "/Robotronics"), but this application is located in the directory > /usr/java/tomcat-5.5/webapps/springapp. > > and you would apparently like that "everything" would answer to the URL > http://www.robotronics.org (port 80). > > That is feasible, but the above is composed of several parts, and there are > several ways to configure the individual parts. > So you have to be a bit systematic in the approach, and do one thing at a > time. > > A couple of questions to answer first are : > 1) do you want to leave the html and javascript part under the Apache httpd > server, or not ? > 2) do you need this Apache httpd server for other things, apart from this > specific case ? > > The reason for these questions is that the easiest and simplest setup would be > - to move the html and javascript part onto the Tomcat server > - to eliminate the Apache httpd server > - to change the Tomcat server so that it responds to port 80 instead of port > 9080 > - to change the Tomcat configuration so that your webapp application becomes > the "default" application of Tomcat, and thus answers to the URL > http://www.robotronics.org, without the "/Robotronics" prefix. > > But, this simple setup would not be the right one if you want to keep the > front-end Apache httpd, because for example you need it for other things > (other virtual sites, other applications, etc..). > In that case, we would then recommend some form of "proxying" between Apache > httpd and Tomcat. And there are several possibilities there too. > Which is why I mention the need to take this one bit at a time.. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
