Tomcat deployment

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:12 pm

All,
I have tomcat setup on our server to listen on port 80 which means that any HTTP request coming to the server tomcat handles. My question: is there are way to setup tomcat to redirect to my application login page. Basically right now the only way to get to the login page is to go to www.mypage.com/awareim/app/login.html. Is there are way to setup tomcat to redirect any call to port 80 on the server to this url? I would like anyone going to www.mypage.com to get the login page.

Everything I have found only says that this would be easy if running apache with tomcat but I could not find a solution if not running apache.

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:18 pm

Sorry to do this but I need a way around this tomcat issue. -Bump-

Has anyone setup tomcat to handle all requests for a particular domain call. All I need is for tomcat to redirect calls from www.mypage.com to www.mypage.com/awareim/login.html

This is a simple action with the Apache & Tomcat combination but with the way the AwareIM is setup it seems this is complicated. I have googled the heck out of this topic with no solid solution.

rocketman · Post by **rocketman** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:56 pm

Not a tomcat expert but would a simple http redirect statement on www.mypage.co home page do the trick?

There's a simple html tag which I understand is no longer recommended but works nevertheless

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www/mypage.com/AwareIM/Logon etc etc">

Usually accompanied by something like "If this page does not redirect in 5 seconds click here "

rocketman · Post by **rocketman** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:02 pm

Ps .... I gather it's big downfall is it loses you brownie points in the google rankings - but there is javascript code you could use. I come from a .net /VBscipt background and would use a simple one liner response.redirect("url to redirect to")

cchappell · Post by **cchappell** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:10 pm

Not sure if I'm missing something here.

But couldn't you just have a reverse proxy via, apache, faststream,lighttpd, squid, etc. and then route urls to whatever server you wish on whatever port you wish (and also offload your ssl if that is used)?

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:37 pm

I am still stuggling with this as I have a limited knowledge of how Tomcat works. For example could someone explain how to get tomcat to server up a page at all when monitoring just port 80 the standard HTTP port. If I can get that working I believe the redirect would not be a problem.

The issue I am facing is when I deploy the exe build of my business space to a server that has IIS running just for FTP access (the website is turned off) the server returns a 400 error when you just go to the www.mydomain.com site but if you go to www.mydomain.com/awareim/logon.html it work just fine.

Is there a way to have tomcat listen and respond to port 80?

Sorry for all the confusion I have spent all my time thus far in the IIS world. I miss the UI that IIS has.

rocketman · Post by **rocketman** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:29 pm

Hi, as i said I'm not a tomcat expert (same background as you but I've done a bit of digging and discoverd a file in C:\AwareIM\tomcat\conf\server.xml

There's a section in there that looks promising

" 
<Connector port="8080" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100"
connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" />

Have you tried playing around with that?. Can't do it myself - I'm in a critical phase of testing as i'm sure the aware guys would quite like me to part with some cash in the near future.

Good Luck

rocketman · Post by **rocketman** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:02 pm

Sorry Brian, tried it - didn't work.

There must be a config file somewhere

rocketman · Post by **rocketman** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:56 pm

Brian, Ignore last post. I DID get Tomcat listening on port 80. First time I inadvertently edited Server-minimal.xml instead of server.xml.

Once I'd edited the correct file, the url http://localhost/AwareIM/logonAdmin.html worked ok. (note - no :8080) but http://localhost did not (as I would expect). So now i/you/we just need to figure out how to set the default path

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:10 pm

Thanks Rocketman,

I was able to get Tomcat to listen on port 80. This can also be accomplished through the settings menu on the control panel.

What I am trying to find out is how to setup Tomcat to serve up a page when you go to simply http://localhost. IIS for example comes preloaded with an under construction page. If IIS is running a website and you have done nothing to it then all users coming to your server will recieve this page.

I assume there has to be some way to get Tomcat to serve up a page when the user goes to the default http://localhost:8080 from the server (the port ends up only making a difference if you want Tomcat to handle HTTP requests).

Is Tomcat only able to function if it is given the path to the app (for example www.555.555.555.555.com/Aware/Myapp)?

Tip: if you want Tomcat to serve up your application with just the path in the browser bar you can make the following change.
C:\Library\Tomcat\webapps\AwareIM\WEB-INF\web.xml
Change the welcome file list entry from index.jsp to login.html or Adminlogin.html
Original:

<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

Change to:

<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>logon.html </welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>