Apache, Tomcat, Jakarta and disable port 8080

[steven.ellis]

I want to put Apache in the front of my Catalina/Tomcat combo and I don't want anyone to be able to access pages hosted on the Jakarta side directly. All access should be via Apache.

I have setup mod_jk to pass selected paths through to Jakarta,

eg http://localhost/fred/index.jsp

But I can also browse this as

http://localhost:8080/fred/index.jsp

How can I disable port 8080 access on Jakarta when it is integrated with JBoss. I can change the port, but I can't disable it.

Steve

[dsnyckers]

I have the same problem?

I'm using a proxy (proxy module) but the idea is the same I think. In my httpd.conf I have added the next lines :

<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from all


ProxyPass /tpc http://localhost:8080/tpc/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/

this makes sure that when I enter http://hostname/tpc , this is automatically redirected to tomcat. But just as steven, I want to disable the access to http://hostname:8080/tpc because of security reasons.

How is this possible? Can you block access to 8080 from outside in your apache configuration file?

Regards,
Dave

[davecrane]

Under a standalone tomcat, you would edit the server.xml file and remove one of the tags. I think the standard server.xml that ships with tomcat includes one for standalone on port 8080 and one for ajp connection through to apache.

Not sure whether this applies to the JBoss-hosted tomcat, but should get you started.

Dave