Configure Apache HTTPD not to see the webapp name in the URL

Davide Bianchi wrote:
 > Ben Jessel wrote:
  > > Essentially, I'm looking for a solution where I never see my web-app
  > > name in my URL
 >
 > Then use a frameset and 'run' your application in the inner frame.

or write a php interface that loads your pages dinamycally

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Thanks for everyone's input.

However, I'm a little concerned that there's not a quick and easy
apache way of doing this; what do commercial users do? I'm sure that
there must be an apache way of doing this! Could it be done with
virtual hosting or aliasing?

Its a pity that you can't just define a virtual directory to
c:/tomcat4.1/webapps/mysite, as then this circumvents JK2 and doesn't
use apache.

So is this a limitation of JK2 that you can't ever intercept something
at the root path of your webserver and then forward it to a different
context?

I tried:

[urn:/]
context=/mysite/

But unfortunately it never got picked up.



Btw as anyone successfully managed to get JNI channels working with
apache/tomcat? THe closest I got was an error message saying that it
needed some jni libraries in the java-library-path. I added a dll, but
still no joy......


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I've successfully set up JK2, Apache HTTPD and Tomcat.
My webapp it called mysite - I've set my workers.properties as
[uri:/mysite/*].
My site is called, say http://welcometomysite.com.

In order to actually make mysite/index.jsp to appear when you go to
http://welcometomysite.com, I used mod_rewrite and added a directive:

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride AuthConfig
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule / /mysite/ [L]
</Directory>

However, when I go to http://welcometomysite.com, the url is
http://welcometomysite.com/mysite.

Is there any way that I can disguise the URL so it never shows the
web-app name?
One considerations is that all my entries in my struts.config and jsp
pages currently say /mysite/dosomething.do.

Essentially, I'm looking for a solution where I never see my web-app
name in my URL. Can anyone advise? I am an HTTPD newbie.

Thanks

Ben
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In alt.apache.configuration Ben Jessel <ben.jessel RemoveThis @morpheme.co.uk> wrote:
 > So is this a limitation of JK2 that you can't ever intercept something
 > at the root path of your webserver and then forward it to a different
 > context?

Sure you can. Just put your webapp in the ROOT context of the
application server. But then you can have ONE context only. While most
of the time what you want is to have MANY context.

Davide

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Davide Bianchi wrote:
 > Sure you can. Just put your webapp in the ROOT context of the
 > application server. But then you can have ONE context only. While most
 > of the time what you want is to have MANY context.

I don't see this at all. I see that the servlet specification is
written from the perspective of having multiple contexts, but this is
mostly an annoyance that can be worked around.

(And, of course, it's quite possible to have a root context plus several
contexts mapped to subpaths, so long as the root context doesn't use
URLs that begin with the path of the subcontext.)

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In alt.apache.configuration Chris Smith <cdsmith RemoveThis @twu.net> wrote:
 > (And, of course, it's quite possible to have a root context plus several
 > contexts mapped to subpaths, so long as the root context doesn't use
 > URLs that begin with the path of the subcontext.)

Hummm... wouldn't that be a mess with which-context-load-first his own
libraries? If you have specific libraries for specific context of course.

Davide


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I believe the difference is setting up your rewrite engine to proxy
through instead of URL rewrite. (I believe) As a proxy the client is
not made aware of the change, which is typical of load balancing servers
and stuff, but rewriting sends a "moved" header or something. I don't
remember why I went the rewrite route, but I think the proxy set-up is a
little more involved.



There used to be some fabulous articles on the apache.org site.

Ben Jessel wrote:
 > Thanks for everyone's input.
 >
 > However, I'm a little concerned that there's not a quick and easy
 > apache way of doing this; what do commercial users do? I'm sure that
 > there must be an apache way of doing this! Could it be done with
 > virtual hosting or aliasing?
 >
 > Its a pity that you can't just define a virtual directory to
 > c:/tomcat4.1/webapps/mysite, as then this circumvents JK2 and doesn't
 > use apache.
 >
 > So is this a limitation of JK2 that you can't ever intercept something
 > at the root path of your webserver and then forward it to a different
 > context?
 >
 > I tried:
 >
 > [urn:/]
 > context=/mysite/
 >
 > But unfortunately it never got picked up.
 >
 >
 >
 > Btw as anyone successfully managed to get JNI channels working with
 > apache/tomcat? THe closest I got was an error message saying that it
 > needed some jni libraries in the java-library-path. I added a dll, but
 > still no joy......
 >
 >
 > Original Mesage:
 >
 >
 >
 > I've successfully set up JK2, Apache HTTPD and Tomcat.
 > My webapp it called mysite - I've set my workers.properties as
 > [uri:/mysite/*].
<font color=purple> > My site is called, say <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://welcometomysite.com.</font" target="_blank">http://welcometomysite.com.</font</a>>
 >
 > In order to actually make mysite/index.jsp to appear when you go to
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://welcometomysite.com," target="_blank">http://welcometomysite.com,</a> I used mod_rewrite and added a directive:
 >
 > <Directory />
 > Options FollowSymLinks
 > AllowOverride AuthConfig
 > RewriteEngine on
 > RewriteRule / /mysite/ [L]
 > </Directory>
 >
 > However, when I go to <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://welcometomysite.com," target="_blank">http://welcometomysite.com,</a> the url is
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://welcometomysite.com/mysite.</font" target="_blank">http://welcometomysite.com/mysite.</font</a>>
 >
 > Is there any way that I can disguise the URL so it never shows the
 > web-app name?
 > One considerations is that all my entries in my struts.config and jsp
 > pages currently say /mysite/dosomething.do.
 >
 > Essentially, I'm looking for a solution where I never see my web-app
 > name in my URL. Can anyone advise? I am an HTTPD newbie.
 >
 > Thanks
 >
 > Ben<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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