Sun One Reverse Proxy to Tomcat

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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 </geshi>

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 http://box2:8080/cobertura/ in the browser shows everything is working well.

Next, I need to configure my Sun ONE web server. Fortunately, there's a good guide for this. 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: </geshi>

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

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