Apache with Tomcat proxy: not showing images

Question

I've set up an Apache httpd server proxying requests to Tomcat using mod_proxy, listening on port 80. My only problem is that the static images and css is not appearing properly. If I use Tomcat as a server by itself on port 8080, the images and css appear fine. Any ideas how to display them? Thanks!

Note: I'm on a Mac and am using an Amazon EC2 server. An example would be very welcome.

Iman Iman · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-17T13:27:24

This issue refers to Path Translation, you might going to serve you'r application to the client at the top level /, but the corresponding path would be /myapp/(for example). Servlet applications running under tomcat are often setup in this way to provide multiple applications in one, you'r apache setup looks like it :

ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/myapp/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/myapp/

you'r back-end application (myapp) is not aware of this translation and still hands out it's usual paths. for example you'r application refers to some static image files served by application running in tomcat at the location /myapp/images/, one of the way you can to do is keep special proxy mappings apart from other rewrite rules.

ProxyPass /myapp/images http://localhost:8080/myapp/images

ProxyPassReverse /myapp/images http://localhost:8080/myapp/images

so you can use these lines in front of previous directive block.

Apache with Tomcat proxy: not showing images

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