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Configuring Apache2.2 mod_proxy_ajp with Tomcat

June 4, 2009
Filed under: Featured, JSP, Linux, MySQL 5.1, MySql 

mod_proxy_ajp is an Apache module which can be used to forward a client HTTP request to an internal Tomcat application server using the AJP protocol.  In this example I have used JSPWki as the example application running on a Windows server with Apache2.2 and Tomcat 5.5

Advantages of mod_proxy_ajp rather:

  • You can gain a lot of flexibility (lot of the apache modules/features can be used especially “name-based virtual hosting”)
  • Practical for those who need to support Java applications along with PHP / Perl … (only one apache server is needed)
  • Certificates management is easier in apache configuration (this argument is a lot subjective)
  • It’s not Tomcat’s main objective to serve http static resources (not optimized for that)
  • Load balancing/cluster management is easier with an apache frontend

Tomcat configuration

We just have to create the AJP connector in the conf/server.xml file like that:

<Connector port="8009" enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" protocol="AJP/1.3" />

This line will enable AJP connections to the 8009 port of your tomcat server (localhost for example).

Apache2 configuration

One way (useful if this apache is a global front end) is to create a virtual host for this application.

  • ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse are classic reverse proxy directives used to forward the stream to another location.
  • ajp://… is the AJP connector location (your tomcat’s server host/port)

# JSP Wiki DNS

<VirtualHost 10.1.1.170:80>

ServerName wiki.example.com

ServerAlias wiki

DocumentRoot “D:/Tomcat 5.5/webapps/JSPWiki/”

#DocumentRoot “D:/Apache2.2/htdocs/JSPWiki”

<Proxy *>

AddDefaultCharset Off

Order deny,allow




Allow from all

</Proxy>

ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8009/

ProxyPassReverse / ajp://localhost:8009/

</VirtualHost>

The following entries were made in server.xml on the Tomcat App Server :

<Host name=”wiki.example.com” debug=”0″

appBase=”D:/Tomcat 5.5/webapps”

unpackWARs=”true” autoDeploy=”true”>

<Alias>wiki</Alias>

<Context path= “” docBase=”D:/Tomcat 5.5/webapps/JSPWiki” debug=”1″/>

<Valve className=”org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve”

directory=”logs” prefix=”home_access_log.” suffix=”.txt”

pattern=”common” resolveHosts=”false”/>

</Host>

Under JSPWiki/WEB-INF/jspwiki.properties the Base URL was modified as follows :

jspwiki.baseURL=http://wiki/JSPWiki/

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