how to redirect from apache to tomcat..?

[prabhu pandurangan]

Hi Members,

I have an application which works on 'http://localhost:8080/', but i need to redirect it to 'http://localhost'.

If i enter 'http://localhost' it should redirect to 'http://localhost:8080/'

Please let me know the configuration setup to do for this.

Regards,
Prabhu.

[Bauke Scholtz]

The default HTTP port is 80.
If you don´t specify the port in the URL, then port 80 will be used. E.g. http://google.com:80.
So you need to change port 8080 in Tomcat configuration to port 80.

By the way, the statement "redirect from apache to tomcat" makes really no sense. Why do you want to redirect from the manfacturer to its product .. ??

[Sagar Rohankar]

Bauke Scholtz wrote:

By the way, the statement "redirect from apache to tomcat" makes really no sense. Why do you want to redirect from the manfacturer to its product .. ??

I think He wants to say like this

"Redirect from Apache HTTP Server(httpd) to Tomcat Servlet container instance"..

I too want to host my web application which is running in tomcat on port 8080, and working in localhost very fine, Now but when I got IP address with domain name, I can not used it on internet ,
like http://mysite.com/myapp/mypage.jsp. (Need to give URL like, http://mysite.com:8080/myapp/mypage.jsp)

I got some web resources, which tell us to connect Tomcat through Apache HTTPD using JK (Apache Connector).
Here is the link,

http://www.devside.net/guides/windows/tomcat

http://www.anchor.com.au/hosting/dedicated/tomcat_with_apache_on_windows_x64

But unfortunately, I cant figure it out..

What may be the cause..

[Bauke Scholtz]

I would just read the documentation which come along with it: http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc

[prabhu pandurangan]

@Sagar

you are right. It is the one i need to do. However im facing some issues like: "proxy ajp failed to make connection to localhost".

FYI: Im using FC6 machine.

Regards,
Prabhu.

[Galen Palmer]

It sounds like you're far enough along that you have a couple of lines like:

ProxyPass /webapp ajp://127.0.0.1/webapp

In your Apache httpd configuration. Can you post your progress so far? It'll be easier to debug that way.

[prabhu pandurangan]

FYI:

I have installed Tomcat by extracting; so i manually added a file named 'tomcat' and placed the script to run tomcat as a services; but in that it shows an error in its status field; will it be a reason for this issue.

Also i have installed 'openssl' for some security purpose and while configuring tomcat with openssl; Im facing some issues like:

Error:
"proxy ajp failed to make connection to localhost".

Also after configuring with Openssl, I could not even start my 'httpd' service, it shows an error message as "service temporarily unavailable".

File added to "/etc/init.d/" file name is 'tomcat':

  

This is actually pretty easy and will be presented step by step.

1. Save tomcat start / stop script
Copy and paste the following script into your text editor:

# This is the init script for starting up the
#  Jakarta Tomcat server
#
# chkconfig: 345 91 10
# description: Starts and stops the Tomcat daemon.
#

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Get config.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

# Check that networking is up.
[ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ] && exit 0

tomcat=/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat
startup=$tomcat/bin/startup.sh
shutdown=$tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk

start(){
 echo -n $"Starting Tomcat service: "
 #daemon -c
 $startup
 RETVAL=$?
 echo
}

stop(){
 action $"Stopping Tomcat service: " $shutdown 
 RETVAL=$?
 echo
}

restart(){
  stop
  start
}


# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
 start
 ;;
stop)
 stop
 ;;
status)
      # This doesn't work ;)
 status tomcat
 ;;
restart)
 restart
 ;;
*)
 echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
 exit 1
esac

exit 0

Edit the lines that start with tomcat and export to match where you installed
tomcat and your jdk.

Note: I can't remember where I first got the original version of this script
so if you deserve credit for this, let us know.

2. Save to /etc/init.d and chmod

Save the edited file above to /etc/init.d directory as "tomcat" (at
least on most newer releases since /etc/init.d is a standard now). Then
you have to allow execute access to the script, so run:

    chmod a+x tomcat 

3. Add to appropriate run level directories
The easy way to do this is to just simply run:

    chkconfig --add tomcat

  

Error Message:

/etc/init.d/tomcat: line10: ./etc/sysconfig/network. Permission Denied
/etc/init.d/tomcat: line13: [=no]: command not found
/etc/init.d/tomcat: line55: status: command not found

Please go through this and let me know what would be the cause for this issue. Permission denied. I think that this may be a problem for this