[SOLVED] how to do auto redirection of a tomcat application

tkmsr · 02-23-2011, 03:26 PM

I have a site http://mysite.com
right now what you are seeing is a default Tomcat6 page.
I am using mod_ajp as a front end and Apache vhost configuration for same is

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80 >

        ServerName mysite.com
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        ProxyRequests off
        <Proxy *>
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
        </Proxy>
        ProxyPreserveHost On

        ProxyPass / ajp://192.168.1.19:8009/
        ProxyPassReverse / ajp://192.168.1.19:8009/


</VirtualHost>

How ever I have an application running on it
http://mysite.com/olat
what I want to do is when some one opens
http://mysite.com
then rather than seeing Tomcat6 home page from
/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT/index.html
the person is redirected to olat application which is in
/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/olat
how can this be achived?
The computer where OLAT (http://mysite.com/olat) is hosted is physically different from where the above apache2 configuration is.

acid_kewpie · 02-23-2011, 04:02 PM

so don't you just want to add "olat/" onto the end of the ProxyPass directives? i.e. move everything up by one level?

tkmsr · 02-23-2011, 11:31 PM

Ok I have found a solution to this problem mentioning so that if some one comes across here
what I did to get it working was deleted

Quote:

/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT

and renamed my application

Quote:

/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/olat

to

Quote:

/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT

and removed the olat.war from

Quote:

/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/

then restarted tomcat6

Code:

/etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart

and I could see auto redirection happening.