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user1403546
user1403546

Reputation: 1749

how set website and webservice on the same port (8080)?

In a server hosting a website address.com (managed with drupal) with an apache2 server (running on port 8080) I would like to install a webservice (tomcat7 / axis2) which runs on the same port 8080. Is there a way do it? There're also svn, trac running on that port. Unfortunately, due to security restrictions, that's the only port accessible externally. Thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1458

Answers (2)

Jeroen S
Jeroen S

Reputation: 149

When you install the webservice listening on another port (at localhost), you can use Apache as a proxy (using mod_proxy) to access that service.

Maybe usefull: How to rewrite / proxy an Apache URI to an application listening on a specific port / server?

Upvotes: 0

larsks
larsks

Reputation: 311238

You can absolutely expose multiple services on the same port, as long as they all live in distinct URL namespaces. For example, you're already running Trac and svn on port 8080, so obviously you are already doing exactly what you're asking about.

To add Tomcat to the mix, you would typically:

  • Run Tomcat locally on another port, and then
  • Use ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse to expose the Tomcat service via your webserver on port 8080.

For example, if you wanted to make your Tomcat instance visible at http://myserver:8080/tomcat, you might add something like this to your Apache configuration:

ProxyPass /tomcat/ http://localhost:8888/
ProxyPassReverse /tomcat/ http://localhost:8888/

You can read more about these directives here. Note that you may need to perform additional configuration of your Tomcat application to reflect the fact that it is externally visible at /tomcat/.

You can also potentially take advantage of virtual hosting, assuming that you control DNS for this system; in that case, you can have:

http://myserver-trac:8080/

Lead to a different VirtualHost configuration than:

http://myserver-tomcat:8080/

You can read more about name-based virtual hosting here.

Upvotes: 1

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