Re: how can i get apache to redirect a whole subdir to a servlet ?

[Tew Tee Li <tl...@simecity.com>]

The mapping in Apache and the mapping in web.xml is related together via
tomcat-apache.conf, which in turned is generated by tomcat using
server.xml.


In your web.xml, context path has to be excluded from your servlet-mapping
tags. Check server.xml and tomcat-apache.conf for the context path
definition for your tomcat engine. What I suspect is that zone might have
been the context path definition for your tomcat engine.

TL


On Mon Apr 30 20:45:02 2001 MYT, Mark Diggory <md...@latte.harvard.edu>
wrote:
> Hussayn,
> 
> We appear to be having the same problem with the mappings in Apache
having 
> nothing to do with the mappings in web.xml. It appears to me that I will 
> have to rewrite all my web.xml mappings into the tomcat-apache.conf. 
> Interesting that no one appears to have dealt with this issue in the past

> and that there has been little or no support from this list concerning
it. 
> I thought this was the place to come and get answers. Instead all we
appear 
> to be getting is a bunch of RTFM's from people who have no interest or
time 
> to answer our email appropriately.
> 
> I will be working on this issue to as well and will forward any
experience 
> I get to you.
> 
> -Mark Diggory
> 
> >Hi,
> >try mod_rewrite. It's great!
> >You have a nice doc in Apache's docs.
> >
> >cu.
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> >From: "Hussayn Dabbous" <da...@saxess.com>
> >To: <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
> >Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:08 PM
> >Subject: how can i get apache to redirect a whole subdir to a servlet ?
> >
> >
> > > Hy, there;
> > >
> > > i need to tunnel a whole subdirectory of my server through a servlet,
> > > that does some internal access rights checking.
> > >
> > > Is it possible to configure tomcat/apache in a way, that all requests
> > > within a specific subdir are forwarded to a servlet ?
> > >
> > >
> > > I already tried it by creating a ...webapps/zone/WEB_INF/web.xml by
using
> >the
> > > following servlet-mapping within the tomcat-config:
> > >
> > > ----------------------
> > > <web-app>
> > >
> > >	<servlet>
> > >	  <servlet-name>zone-checker</servlet-name>
> > >	  <servlet-class>com.saxess.ZoneChecker</servlet-class>
> > >	</servlet>
> > >
> > >	<servlet-mapping>
> > >	  <servlet-name>zone-checker</servlet-name>
> > >	  <url-pattern>/zone/safe-area/*</url-pattern>
> > >	</servlet-mapping>
> > >
> > > </web-app>
> > > ---------------------
> > >
> > > I checkecd, that the Servlet can be accessed by issuing this url:
> > >
> > >	 http://localhost/zone/servlet/zone-checker
> > >
> > > This is the expected behaviour. But the servlet is NOT invoked,
> > > when i try e.g.:
> > >
> > >	 http://localhost/zone/safe-area/index.html
> > >
> > > which i expected also to be served from the servlet due to the
> >servlet-mapping
> > > rule above. Instead the index.html file is simply displayed in the
> >broswer.
> > > Maybe tomcat does not know about the servlet-mapping ?
> > >
> > >
> > > For the server-config, i used following :
> > >
> > > -----------------------------------------
> > > ...
> > > Alias /zone
"/mnt2/local/install/apache/jakarta/build/tomcat/webapps/zone"
> > > <Directory
"/mnt2/local/install/apache/jakarta/build/tomcat/webapps/zone">
> > >	  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
> > > </Directory>
> > > ApJServMount /zone/servlet /zone
> > > <Location "/zone/WEB-INF/">
> > >	  AllowOverride None
> > >	  deny from all
> > > </Location>
> > > <Location "/zone/META-INF/">
> > >	  AllowOverride None
> > >	  deny from all
> > > </Location>
> > >
> > > <LocationMatch /zone/*.jsp>
> > >	SetHandler jserv-servlet
> > > </LocationMatch>
> > >
> > > <LocationMatch /zone/safe/*>
> > >	SetHandler jserv-servlet
> > > </LocationMatch>
> > > ...
> > > -----------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Again i tried out lots of combinations, but none brought the desired
> >results.
> > > Even, if i redirect all requests from apache to tomcat as follows:
> > >
> > > ApJServMount /zone ajpv12://localhost:8007/zone
> > >
> > > Nothing happens (except the index.html is simply displayed)
> > >
> > > Maybe i completely missunderstand something here ? Anyone can help me
?
> > > That would be great.
> > >
> > > Thanks, Hussayn
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