Topic: mod_proxy mod_jk2 mod_webapp??

[Kevin Baker]

I am integrating jboss with apache.  I would like to use mod_proxy to perform the redirects... has anyone installed this yet?

If not where would I get a copy of the mod_webapp or mod_jk2 to use instead?

I have read a couple of the Tomcat integration howto's, but don't understand how to install a module into Apache.

[Charlie Brady]

Kevin Baker wrote:

> I would like to use
> mod_proxy to perform the redirects... has anyone installed
> this yet?

mod_proxy is a standard feature. You use it every time you access the server manager.

Charlie

[David Helmuth]

You probably already saw this, but I thought I would point it out.

http://www.helmuth.net/mitel-sme/Tomcat/tomcat-v4.0_Apache-howto.htm

RE:  Obtaining a copy of mod_webapp:

The mod_webapp RPM is one of the ones that I install when I install Tomcat:

rpm -Uvh http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/archives/v4.0/rpms/mod_webapp-1.0-1.i386.rpm

Is the most up to date one I could find, and it seems to work.

Please let everyone know how the JBoss efforts go!

Thanks and I hope this helps!!

-Dave

[Kevin Baker]

Thanks!  I guess I had not looked closely enough at the existing htttpd.conf

Can I assign a ProxyPass to a specific virtualhost or is it global to the httpd process?

Example httpd.conf code:



   ServerName www.missionvi.local
   ProxyPass /jboss-example http://localhost:8080/jboss-example/
   ProxyPassReverse  /jboss-example http://localhost:8080/jboss-example/

[Kevin Baker]

Thanks again Charlie.  As Charlie pointed out the mod_proxy is already installed in the standard e-smith installation, so its really simple to use it to integrate webservers other than Apache. In this case JBoss.  Below are the basics.


1.) Create the file:
/etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/92ProxyPassJBoss


2.) Edit and add the following lines
### JBoss Proxy Server Redirect for /account requests
ProxyPass /jboss-example http://jboss.domain.local:8080/jboss-example/
ProxyPassReverse /jboss-example http://jboss.domain.local:8080/jboss-example/


3.)Change the jboss.domain.local:8080 URL and IP to the where you have the JBoss service running.

4.) Change "/jboss-example" to the correct webapp name depending on the Java web-application deployment directory.


This is not a complete integration with e-smith, but does the job for individual webapps.  If it is possible to designate a ProxyPass to a specific virtualhost, then it would be simple to fully integrate.  Any ideas on this?

NOTE: This will definately work as a simple method for integrating Tomcat or Jetty as well.

[Kevin Baker]

Has anyone gotten ProxyRemote working?

I would like try connecting to try some thing like:

ProxyRemote *://jboss.domain.com/ http://jboss.domain.com:8080/


Otherwise maybe something with mod_rewrite...

[Kevin Baker]

I have a procedure and a pip-dream project if anyone is interested in integrating JBoss with e-smith.

http://www.missionvi.com/dev/jboss_esmith/#whatsdone