On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Dhruva Reddy <bdhr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I have a question about running Tomcat behind Apache HTTP server. I hope > this is not inappropriate for this list. > > I am running a website on Tomcat 7.0.33, behind Apache 2.2.15, on CentOS > 6.3 (using Tomcat connector 1.2.37). I would like the user to go to our > base URL (http://www.example.com), but have the request served by a web > application running on Tomcat (I have the connector working, so that you > can access the application through http://www.example.com/application/). > > I thought this could be accomplished through a rewrite rule on the HTTP > server, but I can't seem to get it to work, nor can I find much information > on it. I can't really find any best practices around this, either. Has > anyone done this successfully? > > I have tried many things, but this is what I currently have in httpd.conf: > > <Directory "/var/www/html"> > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks > AllowOverride None > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > RewriteEngine On > <IfModule mod_rewrite> > RewriteBase / > RewriteRule ^/ application/ [NC] > RewriteLog "/etc/httpd/logs/rewrite.log" > RewriteLogLevel 9 > </IfModule> > </Directory> > > I did confirm that the rewrite module is loaded. Any insights would be > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Dhruva > Dhruva, Based on the snippet of configuration you've provided it isn't clear that you've configured the Tomcat Connector. Perhaps there's more that you haven't shown us? Anyway, most recently I've configured Apache much like this document describes: http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/generic_howto/quick.html Cheers, Jeff
