Hi there



I'm doing some testing of redirection with a separate Apache web farm
serving front end redirection of specific tags to Tomcat server via an
ajp13 worker.



The problem I'm coming across is redirecting a DNS alias to a specific
tag on the same web server. I've been trying virtual host directives,
to no avail (the ajp13 redirection works for normal tags). The
configuration is as follows;



httpd.conf



LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.so

JkWorkersFile conf/workers.properties

JkShmFile   logs/mod_jk.shm

JkLogFile   logs/mod_jk.log

JkLogLevel   info

JkLogStampFormat "[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] "

JkMount /app1/* worker1

ServerName fred.abc.co.uk

DocumentRoot "D:/Apache2/htdocs"

Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf



httpd-vhosts.conf



NameVirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80



<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80>

  DocumentRoot d:/apache2/htdocs

  ServerName test.abc.co.uk

  Redirect / http://fred.abc.co.uk/app1/

</VirtualHost>



workers.properties



worker.list=worker1

worker.worker1.type=ajp13

worker.worker1.host=1.2.3.5

worker.worker1.port=8009



Now if I hit the http://fred.abc.co.uk/app1/ without the vhosts include,
the site comes up...great!  If I include the vhosts, and try to hit
http://test.abc.co.uk <http://test.abc.co.uk/> without an appended
/app1/ tag (this is what I'm trying to achieve) to get the same site, I
get nothing at all....in fact, it times out. In the Apache web server
logs all I see is a recursive get on /app1/. Also, the original URL
does not work any more.



This seems to be a simple requirement but it is not proving to be
straightforward.



Can anybody help, or point me in the right direction?



Darren Kukulka

IT Infrastructure Consultant

Conntrol

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