I want to front Tomcat with Apache on a new Mac Server but Im missing some minor step. At the moment both servers are running, but port 8009 is not proxied correctly. 80 and 8080 is working.
I read that Mac/Apache has mod_proxy_ajp installed and should also be ready to run.
(Mentioned by for example Vladimir How to install mod_jk on Mac OS X)
Can someone guide me step by step on a new server from scratch, since all guides on internet, and documentations has not lead to success. (Sorry for asking, but im stuck after 1 week of nightly trials(errors). Im really going nuts here. I would appreciate folderpaths too, since files sometimes are located on more than one location)
Thanks in advance!
Regards
Niklas
Sorry for the delay, I was not allowed to answer my own question within 8 hrs (lack of points) but Yes I got it working! Mavericks Mac OSX server is really easy to setup and use with Apache as front to Tomcat. (If you know how to....)
Now I have tomcat integrated so that php with url: localhost is handeled by Apache and jsp url: localhost/examples -> runs tomcat but doesnt show the port, it looks integrated.
How I did it?
1) Uncomment if neccessary the line in server.xml for tomcat located in opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.9/conf:
<Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" />
Restart the tomcat server
2) Edit the Apache config file located: /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/httpd_server_app.conf
This strange name and location is caused by Mac Server.app and was what caused most problems, since I did not realize they renamed and copied the httpd.conf file to a second location! I was all the time changing the wrong config file...
I added this text with a texteditor TextMate (The program can show hidden files, and ask for adminpass when changing the file)
The Default webpage in Mac.Server is located as below Document Root
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "/Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default"
<Proxy *>
AddDefaultCharset Off
Order deny,allow
Allow from localhost
</Proxy>
ProxyPass /examples ajp://localhost:8009/examples/
ProxyPassReverse /examples ajp://localhost:8009/examples/
</VirtualHost>
Please ensure your mod_proxy_ajp module is enable in Apache.
LoadModule proxy_ajp_module modules/mod_proxy_ajp.so
Once that is done put below code in your VirtualHost with relevant host details.
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8009/
ProxyPassReverse / ajp://localhost:8009/
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I have an Ubuntu server in AWS that is running multiple application servers -- a Wildfly serving up some pages and two Tomcats running a separate app.
I am trying to get subdomains working.
I have DNS's set up to point subdomain1.example.com, subdomain2.example.com. That works fine.
Wildfly is listening on port 80 (I think?), the Tomcats are listening on 8080 and 8090. The goal is to have www.example.com go to Wildfly, subdomain1.example.com go to Tomcat : 8080 and subdomain2.example.com go to Tomcat : 8090
I've found numerous posts that talk about setting up virtual hosts in Apache that should solve my problem. But I keep getting sent down rabbit holes. Some suggest adding to /opt/bitnami/apache2/bin/httpd.config and some suggest putting it in /opt/bitnami/apache2/sites-available/subdomain1.example.com.conf
My first issue: I don't think that Apache is even running. I was under the impression that Apache was baked into Wildfly, but when I execute:
service apache2 status
I get:
apache2.service
Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
Active: inactive (dead)
Running sudo service --status-all also doesn't show it running so I think that it is not. It seems to be installed (Bitnami stack) in /opt/bitnami/apache2
Do I have to turn Apache on as part of Wildfly (and how to turn it on)? If I do, then I would assume that Wildfly is no longer getting traffic.
Second - my research tells me I need i need to enable proxy and proxy_http using a2enmod and a2ensite but I don't have these. Research suggests that all Ubuntu's will have those scripts... do they get created if I turn on Apache?
Sorry for all the noob questions.... I'm a developer without a DevOps guy. This seems like it would so common it would be baked in or there would be a definite solution that I am probably missing.
For those looking for something similar, here is the solution that worked for me.
My server is a Wildfly-Apache2-MySQL AMI image on AWS. I did not need to use a2enmod nor a2ensite as my research suggested. It seems many of those modules are already enabled by the pre-built image.
NOTE THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE BITNAMI AWI SPECIFIC - YOUR FLAVOR CONFIGURATION MAY BE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT
To have a subdomain point to a simple Apache text site (yada.example.com):
Create a directory in ~/stack/apache2/htdocs called yada
Add an entry to the virtual hosts configuration file (sudo nano /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf)
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin info#example.com
DocumentRoot "/opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/yada"
ServerName yada.example.com
ErrorLog "logs/yada-subdomain-error-log"
CustomLog "logs/yada-subdomain-access-log" common
</VirtualHost>
Modify the Apache configuration file to include the virtual hosts. (sudo nano /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/httpd.conf):
...snip...
# Supplemental configuration
#
# The configuration files in the conf/extra/ directory can be
# included to add extra features or to modify the default configuration of
# the server, or you may simply copy their contents here and change as
# necessary.
...snip...
# Virtual hosts
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
# ADDED THE ABOVE LINE
...snip...
Restart Apache (sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache)
To make it point to a Tomcat server, add this to the httpd-vhosts.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin info#example.com
ServerName yada.example.com
ProxyPreserveHost On
# setup the proxy
<Proxy *>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Proxy>
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8090/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8090/
</VirtualHost>
Your port may differ.
FYI, I found this helpful: https://docs.bitnami.com/virtual-machine/components/apache/#how-to-configure-your-web-application-to-use-a-virtual-host
Good luck and shout out to #stdunbar for his guidance.
I have an apache httpd server, say server1* (publicly exposed) that is acting as load balancer for some jboss servers(behind firewall) using mod_cluster. Now I want to install my static content (images/css/htmls) and probably some cg-scripts on a couple of apache servers, say **server2 and server3 (behind firewall).
Now I want server1 to act as load balancer for these server2 and server3 as well along with the jboss servers.
With this arrangement, any request for applications deployed on jboss need to be routed to jboss and any static content request should go to server2 or server3.
Here are the versions I am using
Linux Server
apache httpd - 2.2.22
JBOSS-EAP-6
What mechanism/configuration do I need to use in server1 to make it possible?
Please see if someone can help with this.
Well, you just add a ProxyPass setting. mod_cluster is compatible with ProxyPass, so you can use both.
For instance, if I would like gif images to be served by httpd, not by AS7, I can add:
ProxyPassMatch ^(/.*\.gif)$ !
Furthermore, if you set
CreateBalancers 1
mod_cluster won't create proxies for you and you have to do it yourself. This gives you an additional control. For instance:
ProxyPassMatch ^/static/ !
ProxyPass / balancer://qacluster stickysession=JSESSIONID|jsessionid nofailover=on
ProxyPassReverse / balancer://qacluster
ProxyPreserveHost on
In the aforementioned example, we proxy anything but /static/ content to the workers.
Note:If you encounter any cookies related issues, you might want to play with ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain and ProxyPassReverseCookiePath.
Note qacluster in my config. The default is mycluster, so for naming my balancer qacluster, I added this to mod_cluster config (outside VirtualHost):
ManagerBalancerName qacluster
If it is not clear, just reply and I can try to elaborate further.
I had the same issue where in we were using Apache HTTP server for static content and JBOSS AS 7 server for dynamic contents (the JSF web app).
So adding the below property at the end of Load modules tells
CreateBalancers 0
Tells to "0: Create in all VirtualHosts defined in httpd."
More at: http://docs.jboss.org/mod_cluster/1.2.0/html/native.config.html#d0e485
And the below config solved the issues of images and styel sheets not getting displayed.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName dev.rama.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/assests"
UseAlias 1
ProxyPassMatch ^(.*\.bmp)$ !
ProxyPassMatch ^(.*\.css)$ !
ProxyPassMatch ^(.*\.gif)$ !
ProxyPassMatch ^(.*\.jpg)$ !
ProxyPassMatch ^(.*\.js)$ !
ProxyPassMatch ^(.*\.png)$ !
<Directory /var/www/assests>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Note:
All our assests for the web app was on HTTP server at
/var/www/assests and the url I was accessing was dev.rama.com on port 80
So when it sees this ProxyPassMatch ^(.*.css)$ !
The webserver knows that the css files are local to the http server and we dont need to go to Jboss App server.
More info at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass
I'm trying to setup my local development environment and I'm only missing one piece of the puzzle.
I was able to successfully install the following on my Mac OSX 10.7.5 x86_x64
XAMPP - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html
ColdFusion 10 - Developer Edition
Both are running fine. I was able to pull up localhost (Apache) and localhost:8500 (ColdFusion) - my ajp connector port is 8012
Now I want to be able to pass the request to my ColdFusion from Apache using mod_proxy_ajp.
I created an index.cfm file on the wwwroot/cf directory of ColdFusion, enabled the NameVirtualHost and created a VirtualHost directive in Apache that looks like this:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
<Location "/cf">
Allow from all
ProxyPass ajp://localhost:8012/
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
After restarting everything, I get a 503 error.
Any help or pointers is much appreciated.
Thanks!
check your CF logs:
{cf_root}/cfusion/logs/coldfusion-error.log
You probably have something like this in the log:
org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor getRealPathFromServer
SEVERE: Error in getRealPathFromConn
java.io.IOException: Socket read failed
So mod_proxy_ajp is passing the request to Tomcat, but Tomcat can't read it.
Have you tried configuring with mod_jk instead?
http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion10-apache-manual-connector-configuration.html
Might not be the way you want to configure it, but it should get you up and running.
I'm running Railo 3 in Tomcat 6.0.32. The tomcat server is fronted by Apache 2.2.20. Tomcat and Apache are pre built binaries from openCSW. Railo is just the latest build war deployed in tomcat's autodeploy dir webapps.
Everything is working fine when I try to access railo and content on the tomcat server.
It fails however, when railo on tomcat redirects me to itself. Mostly, when a cfm script uses the CGI.script_name, it will be returned wrong.
On the Apache side, the content is available on www.hostname.com. Apache redirects the user to tomcat through AJP on www.hostname.com:8009/railo/content.
A script on tomcat (taken from open OAuth example) is available at:
/opt/csw/share/tomcat6/webapps/railo/content/oauth_test/examples/admin_consumers.cfm
When I access it and try to perform some action, it calls itself with a few parameters, but at that point, railo dumps out an error, complaining that the file can not be found:
Page /content/railo/content/oauth_test/examples/admin_consumers.cfm [/opt/csw/share/tomcat6/webapps/railo/content/railo/content/oauth_test/examples/admin_consumers.cfm] not found
As you can see railo added twice the relative path from tomcat: /railo/content/railo/content
This is my configuration for the virtual host in Apache:
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName www.hostname.com
DocumentRoot "/opt/www/hostname/htdocs/"
ProxyRequests Off
<proxy *="">
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</proxy>
ProxyPass / ajp://www.hostname.com:8009/railo/content/
ProxyPassReverse / http://www.hostname.com:8888/railo/content/
</VirtualHost>
I tried several variant for the ProxyPassReverse directive, but with no luck so far. Based on extensive searches on the web (The Mystery of ProxyPassReverse), I tried this for the proxypassreverse:
ProxyPassReverse / ajp://www.hostname.com:8009/railo/content/
ProxyPassReverse / http://www.hostname.com:8888/railo/content/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8888/railo/content/
ProxyPassReverse / https://www.hostname.com
The tomcat server also has a virtual host defined like this:
<Host name="www.hostname.com">
<Context path="" docBase="/opt/csw/share/tomcat6/webapps/railo/content" />
</Host>
But everytime, I always get the error from Railo.
Has anyone ever seen this problem with Railo, or CGI, and has an idea how to fix it?
You are specifying "/railo/content" twice. Once in your "docBase" attribute and again in your Proxy attributes. So, requests being proxied through Apache are going to have "railo/content/" twice in their request paths because you have it listed twice: once in Apache, another time in Tomcat.
Try leaving off the /railo/content/ in your ProxyPassReverse attribute:
ProxyPassReverse / http://www.hostname.com:8888/
This will let the Tomcat config add the /railo/content/ bit all by itself.
I've got a tomcat instance with several apps running on it... I want the root of my new domain to go to one of these apps (context path of blah).. so I have the following set up:
<Location />
ProxyPass ajp://localhost:8025/blah
ProxyPassReverse ajp://localhost:8025/blah
</Location>
it kinda works... going to mydomain.com/index.jsp works except the app still thinks it needs to add the /blah/ to everything like css and js.. is there something I can do without deploying the app to ROOT or changing the tomcat server config? I'd like to keep all this kind of thing on the apache side, if it's possible.
I'm thinking I may not be understanding the proxypassreverse directive..
If you're wanting to server the app the /, Tomcat expects the app to be mounted at /, and have the name of ROOT. At least that's how I've always handled the situation personally. Even if you just symlink the app into ROOT, that should mitigate your problems. If you have an app placed in ${tomcat_home}/webapps/newapp, then Tomcat deploys it with a context of /newapp. At least, that's been the case in my history. Also, not sure if it matters but I've always used:
ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8025/blah
ProxyPassReverse / ajp://localhost:8025/blah
it looks like this is kind of a pain in the rear.
apache is literally rewriting pages as it serves them...
I think I'll go a different route.
If you configure hosts on the Tomcat side as well then you can proxy to them and eliminate the context path for non-root webapps--in Tomcat server.xml:
<Host name="myhost">
<Context path="" docBase="/path/to/files" />
</Host>
And on the Apache side:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName myhost
ProxyPass / ajp://myhost:8009/
ProxyPassReverse / ajp://myhost:8009/
</VirtualHost>
Hope that helps.