smartgwt behind apache

[borg]

hi,
we have an tomcat server behind an apache www server due firewall reasons. therefore my question:
is it possible to forward, with apache writerules, a smartgwt-client request to the tomcat server? i have tried this and the application starts up but the first rpc call failed with an error response 500 (internal server error) and in the apache/tomcat logs there is no error message.

thanks for any help

cheers
juergen

[fatzopilot]

Hi,

I use mod proxy_ajp for this and it works fine with RPC:

 
>cat /etc/tomcat6/server.xml
 <!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 -->
<!--  <Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" /> -->
<Connector port="8010" protocol="AJP/1.3" URIEncoding="UTF-8"
		   scheme="http" secure="false" proxyName="mydomain.com" proxyPort="80"
		   compression="on"
		   compressionMinSize="2048"
		   noCompressionUserAgents="gozilla, traviata"
		   compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,application/x-javascript,text/javascript,text/css"/>
<!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 -->
<Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" URIEncoding="UTF-8"
		   scheme="https" secure="true" proxyName="mydomain.com" proxyPort="443"
		   compression="on"
		   compressionMinSize="2048"
		   noCompressionUserAgents="gozilla, traviata"
		   compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,application/x-javascript,text/javascript,text/css"/>

 
>cat /etc/apache2/workers.properties
worker.list=cmsWorker
worker.cmsWorker.type=ajp13
worker.cmsWorker.host=localhost
worker.cmsWorker.port=8009
worker.cmsWorker.lbfactor=1

 
>cat  /etc/apache2/jk.conf
JkWorkersFile          /etc/apache2/workers.properties
JkLogFile              /var/log/apache2/mod_jk.log
JkLogLevel             debug
JkMount                /cms* cmsWorker

 
>cat /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/smartgwtprojectOnMyDomain.conf
<VirtualHost *>
   ServerName mydomain.com
ProxyRequests Off
   <Proxy *>
        AddDefaultCharset off
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from none
        Allow from localhost
   </Proxy>
ProxyPass /cms ajp://localhost:8009/cms
ProxyPassReverse /cms https://localhost/cms
</VirtualHost *>

Maybe ajp is also appropriate in your case. Hope I haven't forgotten something.

Regards