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Frank
Frank

Reputation: 1133

configure proxy_http for apache2 with tomcat7 and webapp under debian wheezy

I have a vServer with debian 7.8 (wheezy), apache2 webserver and tomcat7.

I deployed a webapp with the apache www.mydomain.com/manager app into /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/app/ which runs perfectly under www.mydomain.com:8080. It gets linked to my webapp´s welcome page www.mydomain.com:8080/app/#welcome.

My apache2 www.mydomain.com/host-manager lists only “localhost” under host name.

Now I want to connect my apache2 webserver to tomcat7, so that www.mydomain.com starts my webapp (like www.mydomain.com/#welcome).

Things, i have done so far:

  1. enabled proxy_http, which can be found under /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/proxy_http.load

  2. my /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default file looks like

    <VirtualHost *:80> 
ServerName www.mydomain.com 
ServerAlias mydomain.com 
ProxyRequest Off 
ProxyPreserveHost On 

  <Proxy*> 
  Order deny,allow 
  Allow from all 
  </Proxy>

ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/ 
ProxyPassReserve / http://localhost:8080/

DocumentRoot /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/app/ 
</VirtualHost>

  3. changed /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost to 127.0.0.1 www.mydomain.com

  4. my /etc/tomcat7/server.xml looks like

    <Server port=”8005” shutdown=”SHUTDOWN”>
... 
<Connector port=”8080” protocol=”HTTP/1.1”   
  ... 
  redirectPort=”8443”
  proxyPort=”80” 
  proxyName=”www.mydomain.com” />

What am i missing?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 488

Answers (1)

admirableadmin
admirableadmin

Reputation: 2759

From your configuration i noted:

  • whitespace at <_Proxy *> and </Proxy_>
  • DocumentRoot in combination with proxy configuration, doesn't make sense
  • if you plan to redirect to localhost:8080/app/ you have to configure this (see below)

I have no tomcat7, but i configured nginx: apache (80) --> proxy --> nginx (8080)

With the following configuration a subdirectoy app from nginx is displayed at port 80 via apache. I hope this will help to answer your question (just works fine with Debian 8):

/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ProxyVia On
    ProxyRequests Off
    ProxyPreserveHost on

    ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8080/app/ retry=0
    ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8080/app/

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

enable proxy and restart apache:

a2enmod proxy
a2enmod proxy_http
service apache2 restart

all possible error messages are logged into /var/log/apache2/error.log, you should also take a look at your tomcat logfiles.

If you put the configuration in an other file than 000-default.conf you have to enable the site with a2ensite <sitename> so that apache knows that it exists.

Upvotes: 2

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