Remove tomcat port number in the http URL

4
votes

I have a webapplication hosted on tomcat. I'm trying to achieve a URL redirection of my webappname. So, I'm using the vhosts config in apache of my xampp installation.

My tools : Tomcat, XAMPP, APACHE

Changes I made :

In /System32/drivers/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 www.myapp.com

Also, I requested for a domain name.

nslookup myapp.com
Server: xxx.xx.xxx.xxx
Address:    xxx.xx.xxx.xxx#53

myapp.com   canonical name = blah-blah-myapp.com.
Name:   myapp.com
Address: xxx.xx.xxx.xxx

In tomcat server.xml :

     <Connector className="org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpConnector"
            connectionTimeout="20000" port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" redirectPort="8443"
            proxyName="www.myapp.com"
            proxyPort="80"/>

In httpd.conf :

LoadModule proxy_module  modules/mod_proxy.so
#AddModule  mod_proxy.c  # Gave error when tried to follow the docs

ProxyPass         /MyAppPath  http://localhost:8080/MyAppPath
ProxyPassReverse  /MyAppPath  http://localhost:8080/MyAppPath

In http-vhosts.conf :

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName myapp.com
ServerAlias www.myapp.com
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
<Proxy *>
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Proxy>
ProxyPass /MyAppPath http://localhost:8080
ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8080

By making these configurations, I achieved the functionality in my Macintosh machine. But, the problem is with windows server. I made the same changes in windows installation config files. It not skipping the PORT number. My app only works with the port number infront of the domain name. How can I make the http request on port 80 to redirect to tomcat port 8080

All I'm looking for is to implement something like www.myapp.com instead of localhost:8080/index.html. My app is running on port 8080. After the above config changes, i'm able to access the application with www.myapp.com:8080. I want to eliminate the 8080 from the url.

2
apachehttptomcatxamppvhosts
Do any URLs work on your Windows machine? If so, which ones? What URL(s) do you want to work, instead? Windows should allow you to launch Apache httpd listening on port 80 and therefore not require a port number (after the hostname, not before). – Christopher Schultz
All I'm looking for is to implement something like www.myapp.com instead of localhost:8080/index.html. My app is running on port 8080. After the above config changes, i'm able to access the application with www.myapp.com:8080. I want to eliminate the 8080 from the url. – Satish Jonnala

2 Answers

3
votes

Your problem

http://192.9.200.192:8080/myService/my/BaseService/base

OPEN

C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\conf\sever.xml

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
               connectionTimeout="20000"
               redirectPort="8443" />

EDIT

<Connector port="80" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
               connectionTimeout="20000"
               redirectPort="8443" />

open Configure tomcat from start menu if the service stop condition restart it (stop -> start)

call URL like this

http://192.9.200.192/myService/my/BaseService/base

Problem solved!

1
votes

Your port numbers should be fine: Tomcat is listening on 8080 and Apache httpd is listening on 80. If you want http://www.myapp.com/ to go to your webapp, then you'll have to adjust your ProxyPass configuration:

ProxyPass /MyAppPath http://localhost:8080
ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8080

That configuration is not valid, since ProxyPassReverse requires two arguments. I think you want something like this:

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

If you do the above, then everything will be proxied-over to Tomcat. (At this stage its worth asking yourself why you are bothering with Apache httpd at all, since everything is being proxied). You'll also want to set proxyPort to 80 in your <Connector> in server.xml.

If you want /index.html to work, and not show you the Tomcat "success" page that comes with it, then you need to re-name your webapp from MyAppPath to ROOT (case matters: it must be upper-case). Just re-name your webapp's directory to ROOT or your WAR file to ROOT.war and you should be good to go.

If you just want to use port 80 and don't need Apache httpd for anything else, then simply change Tomcat's server.xml so that your <Connector> for port 8080 is instead using port 80, and remove Apache httpd from the mix altogether.