how to forward the requests from webserver to tomcat with out context root

[Sam Anchor]

Hello All,

How can I forward the request hitting webserver directly to AppServer?

My Environment Details:
webserver: Apache 2.4
Appserver: Tomcat 7.0
java: 1.6

My current URL ex: https://Webservername/App1
Current settings:

ProxyPass /App1 https://Appservername:8443/App1
ProxyPassReverse /App1 https://Appservername:8443/App1

i want the URL to be https://Webservername and that should redirect to the App1.

[Tim Holloway]

ProxyPass / https://Appservername:8443/App1
ProxyPassReverse / https://Appservername:8443/App1

Note, however, that you should do this in a VirtualHost. Otherwise, the entire Apache webserver will route to Tomcat!

[Sam Anchor]

I tried giving / but it didnt work. Here are my Virtual Host config

<VirtualHost _default_:443>

# General setup for the virtual host
DocumentRoot "D:/WebServer/htdocs"
ServerName webserver name
ServerAdmin [e-mail] (kept it default)
ErrorLog "D:/WebServer/logs/error.log"
TransferLog "D:/WebServer/logs/access.log"

And I just have index.html undet htdocs folder

[Tim Holloway]

Well, the reason I warned about using VirtualHost was because it routes everything to Tomcat whether you want it to or not. Using "default" as the VirtualHost does exactly the same thing.

What I was referring to was something more like this:

<VirtualHost trac.mousetech.com:8443> ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/trac ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/trac </VirtualHost>

A couple of things to note are:

1. The SSL channel is strictly from the Internet to the Apache Server. The mod_proxy channel is unencrypted. I believe that if you really need SSL within your network, that you'd need to use mod_jk. In any event, of course, encryption over the loopback (localhost) is pointless, since there's no way to intercept that.

2. I didn't include the directives that enable mod_proxy or the SSL mechanisms. They're left as an excercise to the reader.