Apache & Tomcat: ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse

Question

I'am having troubles configuring Apache and Tomcat, this is the scenario:

I have an Apache Web Server, running and working normally, I can access to this one just typing:

http://localhost

Also, in this host, I have a Tomcat running and working fine; I've created a mini web-app which files are inside "prueba" directory, I can access typing:

http://localhost:8080/prueba

(I know that Apache is running in 80 port and Tomcat in 8080)

What I want to do is that througt Apache an user can access to 'pruebas'(running on Tomcat), I mean:

http://localhost/prueba

I've readen a lot of this, and I think that there are 2 ways to do this, and I've decided enabling the proxy modules(proxy and proxy_ajp, with a2enmod), also I've readed I must edit this file: sites-available/default, this is the content:

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerName 127.0.0.1
     DocumentRoot /var/www

     ProxyRequests Off
     ProxyPreserveHost On

     ProxyPass /static/ !
     ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8009/
     ProxyPassReverse / ajp://localhost:8009/

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.
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     Alias /static/ "/apache/www/"

</VirtualHost>

But this hasn't work propperly :(

I have to say that I've tried whit many changes, ont this 2 lines, like:

     ProxyPass /prueba ajp://localhost:8009/prueba
     ProxyPassReverse /prueba ajp://localhost:8009/prueba

or

     ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8009/prueba
     ProxyPassReverse / ajp://localhost:8009/prueba

(each time I edit the file, I restart apache)

But when I access to [http://localhost/prueba/], I have: Service Temporarily Unavailable

Has anyone knows why? Thanks in advance guys.

Pd: I'm working with apache 2.2.17 and tomcat6.

Answer 1

You have to put

 ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8009/
 ProxyPassReverse / ajp://localhost:8009/

on your apache virtual host

Then you have to uncomment ajp listener in tomcat

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

Then you have to configure host and context path in server.xml

REFF: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/howto/ApachePlusTomcat_HowTo.html

Hope this will help you..