Interesting Apache+Tomcat Conundrum

[John C. Welch]

On 2/11/07 01:29, "James Bucanek" <subscriber at gloaming.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> Running OS X Server 10.3 on an Xserve.
> 
> I'm trying to set up some discussion forums for an existing web site. The
> forum software and site use JSP running Tomcat. So far, so good.
> 
> I'm trying to get the forum software to run in its own domain as though it was
> its own web site: i.e. http://forums.domain.net/
> 
> My problem is ports. Tomcat is running on port 9006. Virutal hosts in OS X run
> on port 16080 (why, I don't know). If I try to implement this using just
> ProxyPass it doesn't work because it simply changes the URL to
> http://jsp.domain.net:9006/, which is ugly.
> 
> I tried to do this by simply mapping all requests to Tomcat via 'JKMount /*',
> but this doesn't help because redirects generated by the webapp go to
> http://forums.domain.net:16080/ because that's the port the servlet thinks it
> is running on. The redirected request times out because port 16080 isn't
> accessible from the outside world.

Turn off the Mac OS X Server  web performance cache and the 16080 thing will
go away

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John C. Welch         Writer/Analyst
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