Configuration to get the images from the apache - apache

Question

I have multiple Tomcat servers. In each tomcat I am loading all images. I want to move the images from Tomcat to Apache and access the images from there.
My question is: is there any configuration to get the images in a Java web application from Apache instead of Tomcat?

Answer 1

I don't think so - images are shown by resolving their URL, and in most cases it is relative to the current page.
But you can use mod_proxy (or mod_jk) to use all your tomcats through Apache.

Answer 2

Hide your tomcat servers behind an apache server and then you can do something like this:
<VirtualHost www.example.com:80>
ServerName www.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ProxyPass /img !
ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:1234/
</VirtualHost>
Apache will serve /img from /var/www/html/img and other requests will be sent to tomcat. This configuration needs mod_proxy_ajp apache module to be active. Tomcat must listen to AJP requests on the given port, use:
<Connector port="1234" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" address="127.0.0.1" URIEncoding="UTF-8" />
And configure tomcat to serve www.example.com or the default virtual host.
<Host
name="www.example.com"
appBase="/path/to/tomcat/apps/www.example.com"
unpackWARs="true"
autoDeploy="true"
xmlValidation="false"
xmlNamespaceAware="false"
/>
or
<Host
name="localhost"
appBase="/path/to/tomcat/apps/www.example.com"
unpackWARs="true"
autoDeploy="true"
xmlValidation="false"
xmlNamespaceAware="false"
/>
Deploy your webapp to /path/to/tomcat/apps/www.example.com/ as ROOT.war, this should be enough to have the whole setup up and running.