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2007-10-31T06:43:13Z

New page: The goal of this exercise is to get a Sun One 6.1 Web Server configured as a reverse proxy, forwarding certain requests to the app server, running Apache Tomcat 6.0.14. First, I need to i...

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The goal of this exercise is to get a Sun One 6.1 Web Server configured as a reverse proxy, forwarding certain requests to the app server, running Apache Tomcat 6.0.14.

First, I need to install Tomcat. I've downloaded it to my install directory.

<geshi lang="bash">
$ cd install/
$ gunzip apache-tomcat-6.0.14.tar.gz
$ tar xvf apache-tomcat-6.0.14.tar
$ mv apache-tomcat-6.0.14 ../
$ cd ..
$ ln -s apache-tomcat-6.0.14 tomcat
$ tomcat/bin/startup.sh
# I'll add this to my .bashrc later
$ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java
$ tomcat/bin/startup.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE: /export/home/begge1/apache-tomcat-6.0.14
Using CATALINA_HOME: /export/home/begge1/apache-tomcat-6.0.14
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /export/home/begge1/apache-tomcat-6.0.14/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr/java
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I'm going to copy some files over from box1, so I'll have something to look at once I get it working
<geshi lang="bash">
$ rsync -avz build/reports/cobertura box2:~/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/
</geshi>

A quick check of <code>http://box2:8080/cobertura/</code> in the browser shows everything is working well.

Next, I need to configure my Sun ONE web server. Fortunately, there's a good [http://www.sun.com/blueprints/1103/817-4402.pdf guide] for this. [http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-0262/funcs?a=view This] seems to be a more useful guide.

Hint to reset the password to blank. I ended not really using the admin console.
<geshi lang="bash">
$ diff admpw.bak admpw
1c1
< admin:{SHA}Ngim0aBauiPqOQ5fO0ggPbtyQfc=
\ No newline at end of file
---
> admin:
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I made these changes to the config files
<geshi lang="diff">
diff -u WebServer6.1.orig/https-myserver/config/magnus.conf WebServer6.1/https-myserver/config/magnus.conf
--- WebServer6.1.orig/https-myserver/config/magnus.conf 2007-10-31 16:32:12.903619200 +1100
+++ WebServer6.1/https-myserver/config/magnus.conf 2007-10-31 17:15:50.724017300 +1100
@@ -17,3 +17,6 @@

+
+# reverse proxy module
+Init fn="load-modules" shlib="C:/Sun/WebServer6.1/plugins/passthrough/passthrough.dll"
diff -u WebServer6.1.orig/https-myserver/config/obj.conf WebServer6.1/https-myserver/config/obj.conf
--- WebServer6.1.orig/https-myserver/config/obj.conf 2007-10-31 16:32:13.059876200 +1100
+++ WebServer6.1/https-myserver/config/obj.conf 2007-10-31 17:33:47.115987500 +1100
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
# problems. See the documentation for more information.

<Object name="default">
+NameTrans fn="assign-name" from="/cobertura(|/*)" name="box2"
NameTrans fn="ntrans-j2ee" name="j2ee"
NameTrans fn="pfx2dir" from="/mc-icons" dir="C:/Sun/WebServer61/ns-icons" name="es-internal"
NameTrans fn="document-root" root="$docroot"
@@ -45,11 +46,15 @@
Output fn="insert-filter" filter="http-compression"
</Object>

+# Execute these instructions for any resource with the assigned name
+# "box2"
+<Object name="box2">
+
+# Proxy the requested resource to the URL
+
+Service fn="service-passthrough"
+ servers="http://box2:8080/cobertura"
+
+</Object>
\ No newline at end of file

</geshi>

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Egge: New page: The goal of this exercise is to get a Sun One 6.1 Web Server configured as a reverse proxy, forwarding certain requests to the app server, running Apache Tomcat 6.0.14. First, I need to i...