Interesting Apache+Tomcat Conundrum

[Dan Shoop]

At 12:29 AM -0700 2/11/07, James Bucanek 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).

Performance Cache.

You don't want this for dynamic web sites.

Turn it off.

>  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.
>
>I tried adding ProxyPassReverse directives, but they apparently 
>don't rewrite redirects.
>
>So either I end up with ugly URLs with port numbers in them, or the 
>client gets back URLs that die trying to send to port 16080.
>
>Does anyone know a way out of this?

Use another IP address that is just for this service so that the 
IP:PORT is unique. Disable other services from listening on this new 
IP.
-- 

-dhan

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