----- Original Message -----
> From: André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com>
> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org>
> Cc:
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 11:52 AM
> Subject: Re: redirection error due to context path after JAAS authentication
> with mod_proxy
>
> Woonsan Ko wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a reverse proxy configuration like this:
>>
>> <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName localhost ProxyPreserveHost On
> ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/app1/ ProxyPassReverse /
> http://localhost:8080/app1/ ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /app1 /
> </VirtualHost>
>
> If it is really like above, then why are you using an Apache httpd front-end
> at
> all?
> Would it not be easier (+ simpler, + more efficient) to just get Tomcat to
> listen on port 80 and whatever IP address Apache httpd is listening to right
> now
> ?
One simple strong reason is that I don't want to run tomcat by root.
Thanks,
Woonsan
>
> (To get exactly the same behaviour as above, you would also have to make
> "app1" be the Tomcat ROOT application.)
>
> Note: I also use a lot of setups with Apache httpd as front-end, and Tomcat
> as a
> back-end, and sometimes this is very practical. At least, when the Apache
> httpd
> front-end is actually "doing something" other than forwarding the
> requests to Tomcat.
> But here, it does not seem to be doing anything at all.
>
>
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