On 12/10/2011 17:51, Woonsan Ko wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com>
>> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org>
>> Cc: 
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 11:52 AM
>> Subject: Re: redirection error due to context path after JAAS authentication 
>> with mod_proxy
>>
>> Woonsan Ko wrote:
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>>  I have a reverse proxy configuration like this:
>>>
>>>  <VirtualHost *:80>   ServerName localhost   ProxyPreserveHost On  
>> ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/app1/   ProxyPassReverse / 
>> http://localhost:8080/app1/   ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /app1 / 
>> </VirtualHost>
>>
>> If it is really like above, then why are you using an Apache httpd front-end 
>> at 
>> all?
>> Would it not be easier (+ simpler, + more efficient) to just get Tomcat to 
>> listen on port 80 and whatever IP address Apache httpd is listening to right 
>> now 
>> ?
> 
> One simple strong reason is that I don't want to run tomcat by root.

JSVC, iptables, Tanuki - bunch of different way to handle that.


p


>> (To get exactly the same behaviour as above, you would also have to make 
>> "app1" be the Tomcat ROOT application.)
>>
>> Note: I also use a lot of setups with Apache httpd as front-end, and Tomcat 
>> as a 
>> back-end, and sometimes this is very practical.  At least, when the Apache 
>> httpd 
>> front-end is actually "doing something" other than forwarding the 
>> requests to Tomcat.
>> But here, it does not seem to be doing anything at all.
>>
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