On 07.10.2019 13:45, Mark Thomas wrote:
On 07/10/2019 12:22, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
Dear fellow Tomcat users,
recently we migrated our application from Tomcat7 to Tomcat9. Most things
work great so far, but we observed on issue. Basically serving static pages
has stopped for us.
Our setup is Tomcat (7.0.62 or 9.0.12) behind Apache HTTPD (2.4.41 using
mod_jk 1.2.46). Yes, 9.0.12 is not recent, but we are forced to that
version.
The mod_jk configuration basically looks like:
<IfModule !mod_jk.c>
LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.so
JkWorkersFile "conf/cb2/workers.properties"
JkShmFile "logs/jk-runtime-status"
JkLogFile "logs/mod_jk.log"
JkLogLevel info
JkWatchdogInterval 60
</IfModule>
And then later inside a virtual host:
#
# CB2 - Portal
#
# Mount the "/cb2" application to worker "cb2"
#
JkMount /cb2/* cb2
#
# Unmount "/cb2/docs" from worker "cb2" to allow static content
# beeing served by apache. Same for "/cb2/cgi-bin"
#
JkUnMount /cb2/docs/* cb2
So we JkUnMount the "/cb2/docs" directory from the application base in
order to server the content directly from Apache. "docs" itself is a
symbolic link pointing outside the application base.
With TC7, we observe the following in the apache access_log:
[07/Oct/2019:12:30:47 +0200] [2 ms] 160.46.219.110 - "POST /cb2/docs
HTTP/1.1" s:302 l:- S:TLSv1.2 C:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
[07/Oct/2019:12:30:47 +0200] [20 ms] 160.46.219.110 - "GET /cb2/docs/
HTTP/1.1" s:200 l:6367 S:TLSv1.2 C:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
So the POST from the application is redirected to the static content, which
is served OK.
With TC9 we see:
[05/Oct/2019:02:58:13 +0200] [0 ms] #160.46.219.110# - "GET /docs HTTP/1.1"
s:404 l:196 S:TLSv1.2 C:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
Where and how is the redirect generated?
As said, the major difference between the setups is TC7 vs. TC9. Any ideas
for me to follow? I did not find anything in the migration 7->8 or 8->9
guides.
I can't think of anything and a review of the migration guides doesn't
bring anything to mind. I'd be looking more at configuration differences
between the old and new systems at this point.
Mark
The URLs appear different :
- the first case shows a URL of "/cb2/docs" (with some kind of redirect from POST to a
GET). According to the mod_jk configuration, this is NOT being proxied to Tomcat. Assuming
thus that the httpd DOCUMENT_ROOT is set to (e.g.) /var/www/docs, it would mean that the
file being served is some directory list (or index document) located below
/var/www/docs/cb2/docs/ (on the httpd host).
- the second example shows a URL of "/docs", which according to the mod_jk configuration
above is also NOT being proxied to Tomcat; thus Apache httpd attempts to serve it locally.
But that URL does not match any Apache-httpd-local file (because /var/www/docs/docs does
not exist), and thus results in a 404 status "not found".
To verify this is quite simple :
In the URL bar of a browser, enter the URL "http://yourservername/cb2/docs"; directly,
replacing "yourservername" alernatively with the one for tomcat 7 and the one for tomcat9.
The result should be the same, because this URL is not being proxied to Tomcat, and is
served locally by httpd.
(On the other hand, the URL "/docs" should give "404 not found" in both cases
too)
What I suspect is :
The above URL "/cb2/docs" is not being entered in the browser URL bar. Instead, the link
to that URL occurs in a html page previously returned by Tomcat, and the user just clicks
on the link.
Then maybe it is that previous page returned by Tomcat, that is different between Tomcat 7
and Tomcat 9.
(That could be consistent with "the major difference between the setups is TC7 vs.
TC9.").
Further speculation under incomplete information (I love this) : could it be that under
Tomcat 7, your application is deployed under ../webapps/cb2, while under tomcat 9, you
have relocated it to ../webapps/ROOT ?
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