4 Replies Latest reply on Oct 4, 2010 3:20 PM by mschwery

Use Apache mod_proxy or mod_rewrite to redirect to jboss por

dehaven_becker Oct 5, 2007 12:02 AM

Hello,
I'm having trouble fronting my instance of Jboss Portal V.2.6 with Apache Http Server. I downloaded and installed the portal bundled with Jboss AS.

There are two issues:

1. I can successfully redirect to the portal using mod_proxy and/or mod_rewrite to get to the portal under port 8080 but there are no images or decorations on the portal once it paints in the browser. It's just text. This is really ugly. When I use localhost:8080 it's beautiful!

2. When I click the Login, Dashboard, Admin etc links I get an error because the links have port 8080 hard coded in them. I can edit the URL in the browser to take out the :8080 and then it works (in ugly text format mentioned in issue 1 above) until I click another one of the links like Admin Dashboard etc. Then it breaks again because:8080 is back in the hard coded link.

Can some one please tell me how to get around these two items. It is important that I continue to use Apache to front the portal because there are other applications that use this instance of Apache.

Thanks in advance!

1. Re: Use Apache mod_proxy or mod_rewrite to redirect to jboss

bvogt Oct 5, 2007 6:46 AM (in response to dehaven_becker)
I cannot believe that they have hard-coded links...

If you use mod_proxy, have you configured:
ProxyPreserveHost On

That should replace the name and port according to your apache configuration (at least it's working with Apache 2.0.x and JBP 2.4).
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2. Re: Use Apache mod_proxy or mod_rewrite to redirect to jboss

persabi Feb 1, 2008 9:53 PM (in response to dehaven_becker)
I can successfully redirect to the portal using mod_proxy and/or mod_rewrite to get to the portal under port 8080 but there are no images or decorations on the portal once it paints in the browser.

I'm faced with the same problem. Basically followed the instructions here http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=UsingMod_proxyWithJBoss to setup mod_proxy with http. Portal works, I can register and get around portal, but content styling and images don't work.

Here is my httpd.conf

LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_balancer_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_http.so <VirtualHost *> ServerName myhost.test.com ServerAlias www.test.com ProxyRequests Off ProxyPreserveHost On <Proxy balancer://mycluster> Order deny,allow Allow from all BalancerMember http://myhost:8080/portal </Proxy> ProxyPass /portal balancer://mycluster ProxyPassReverse /portal http://myhost:8080/portal <Location /portal> Order allow,deny Allow from all </Location> </VirtualHost>

Any suggestions?

Vance
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3. Re: Use Apache mod_proxy or mod_rewrite to redirect to jboss

je.a.le Feb 5, 2008 9:54 AM (in response to dehaven_becker)

I had the same issues weeks ago and i already got an answer from the forum :-)

jboos hidding on localhost behind apache.
Here one vhost config :

<virtualhost 127.0.0.1>
ServerName s1

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule .* - [E=DEFAULT_PORTAL:s1]
RewriteRule .* - [E=DEFAULT_PAGE:p1]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule .* http://127.0.0.1:8080/portal/portal/%{ENV:DEFAULT_PORTAL}/%{ENV:DEFAULT_PAGE} [P]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^$
RewriteRule .* http://127.0.0.1:8080/portal/portal/%{ENV:DEFAULT_PORTAL}/%{ENV:DEFAULT_PAGE} [P]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/TestServlet
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:8080/$1 [P]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/portal
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:8080/$1 [P]

This redirect the url/domain "s1" to portal "s1".
One issues is custon themes. We solve the problems by simple put all our themes directly on jbossportal themes dir (then restart).
For others applications, like portlet, servlet, etc... that more tricky.
1) you create a vhost for each applications (!)
2) or like us, you add a rewritecond (ex testredirectportlet) each time. so
http://s1/TestRedirectServlet/page.jsp translate to localhost:8080/TestRedirectServelt/page.jsp
(in your code, the url is /TestServlet/page.jsp )
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4. Re: Use Apache mod_proxy or mod_rewrite to redirect to jboss

mschwery Oct 4, 2010 3:20 PM (in response to je.a.le)

I'm trying to get the following to work but it's not doing anything.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule .* http://127.0.0.1:8080/index.html [P]

When I put in http://1.2.3.4/DocMgrAppInfo/index.jsp, I want it to go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/index.html. Can anyone give me some ideas?
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