Hi Dave (again),


So... your Tomcat context config problem.

You've got mod_proxy setup to direct some requests to a Tomcat instance,
but you are sending those requests to a Tomcat that doesn't have any cfm
files in it's webapp.

try putting a single test.cfm (hello world type file) into the tomcat
docbase of the ROOT webapp, and then requesting it as normal.


/httpd/docs/your/static/stuff

/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/your/cfms



If we can get that to work, then we'll work out how to fix your app up
to get a useable result.



p




Dave Shuck wrote:
> I have been trying to nail down how to configure the combination of Apache
> 2.2.4 + Tomcat 6.0.9 using mod_proxy to pass ColdFusion templates to an
> instance of a ColdFusion server for processing which is loaded as an
> application in Tomcat.
>
> After some very helpful responses from Pid on the apache-users list, I am
> furthering my discussion here as it appears that my issue lies with my
> misconfiguration (or more aptly un-configuration) of Tomcat to make this
> work.  Below is the conversation that brought me to this list.
>
> I am clearly open to the answer of 'rtfm', but I have been thusfar unable to
> find the 'm' in which my answer exists.   :)
>
> I would be very grateful for any further advice on this issue.
>
> Dave Shuck wrote:
>> I hate to spam up the list with this issue, but I have another question if
> you
>> would indulge me. To strip this down a bit, let's just forget about the
>> multiple instances and say I have a single instance of Tomcat and have
>> installed ColdFusion as an application within it.  
>>
>> So far I have been able to forward .cfm files to ColdFusion via mod_jk and
>> ProxyPass, but neither was in the way that I expected. I haven't been able
>> to successfully process cfm files with the RewriteRule method. Perhaps the
>> problem is in my expectation rather than functionality.
>>
>> Here is what I would expect to happen. In Tomcat there is a webapp
>> named "ROOT" which is where the ColdFusion web admin tools and such
>> installed. It's physical path is /usr/local/apache-tomcat/webapps/ROOT I
> can
>> hit that with http://localhost:8080/......  
>
> ok...
>
>> Then in my httpd-vhosts.conf I
>> have a website that is pathed /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/whateversite. I
>> Ideally I want all my files to exist in the .../htdocs/whateversite
> directory
>> and when I hit a .cfm file in that directory, I want that file to be
>> processed by the ColdFusion application.  
>
> yes...
>
>> When I used ProxyPass, any request to 'whateversite' would just forward the
>> request to the 'ROOT' site and expect the requested file to exist
>> in .../webapps/ROOT.   Obviously this wasn't the answer.
>
> that's because you told it to...
>
> when the request comes in, you forward the request to tomcat, which
> looked for it in the default application (ROOT) because you haven't told
> Tomcat to look anywhere else.
>
> Apache doesn't send the whole file over to Tomcat for processing, it
> just abdicates responsibility for the requested url and expects Tomcat
> to know what to do with it, and where to find it.
>
>> When I used mod_jk, any non-".cfm" templates would serve properly but when
> it
>> went to serve the ".cfm" templates it would expect those to exist in
>> that "ROOT" directory rather in the "whateversite" directory just as
>> ProxyPass had. This was closer but still not the answer.
>
> as above you've not configured your Tomcat to know where those files are.
>
>> I haven't yet gotten your suggestion working using RewriteRule, but would
>> this work as I was expecting where it would not actually re-route the
> request
>> to look for the template in another directory, but actually process the
>> requested template through the application?
>
> it doesn't process the file like a filter, a proxy instruction hands off
> the request for processing by another server, then feeds the results
> back to the client.
>
>> For what it's worth, I added this to the bottom of my httpd.conf file:
>> ReWriteEngine on
>> RewriteRule ^\/(.+)\.cfm(.+)? ajp://localhost:8009/$1.cfm$2 [P,L]
>> RewriteRule ^\/(.+)\.cfc(.+)? ajp://localhost:8009/$1.cfc$2 [P,L]
>>
>> And this does exist in my Tomcat server.xml:
>>   <!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 -->
>>   <Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" />
>>
>> When I put request a ColdFusion template it just serves the plain text back
>> from the template sitting in the "whatever" site. I am not seeing any
>> errors, but it just seems to do nothing with that ".cfm" request.
>>
>> Again, I feel like I am just missing something that is probably painfully
>> obvious to others, but after reading and re-reading through the docs I am
>> just not finding the exact answer I am looking for.
>
> Your Tomcat configuration isn't quite right yet.
>
> You need to specify, either a docbase in the ROOT context with all your
> cf? files in it, or add another context and direct all requests to that.
>
> ask about configuring Tomcat webapps on the tomcat-user list & I'll look
> out for you there.
>


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