Additional settings after installation of Apache Tomcat in Ubuntu 16.04?

Question

I have a VM which runs Ubuntu 16.04 and LAMP and currently is hosting some WordPress sites.

I have implemented locally a web project which runs in Tomcat server and I want to deploy it in the VM. I am planning to install Apache Tomcat 8 and then deploy the war file of my project there.

My question is :

After the installation of the Tomcat 8 in the VM, should I make an extra setting? in the Apache WebServer or somewhere else?
To connect my webApplication with a domain name, when setting the Virtual host in the .conf file, in the DocumentRoot I will add the path of the webapp?

.conf file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin admin@test.com
    ServerName test.com
    ServerAlias www.test.com
    DocumentRoot /opt/tomcat/webapps/webApplication
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 05 '18 at 13:43

There are a couple of ways of doing this, either serve requests to the application using the mod_jk connector, or by configuring apache as a reverse proxy with mod_proxy and sending requests to the tomcat web server. Both will work as a subdomain or as a Directory or Alias directive, so set up will be along these lines:

This is a simple configuration for mod_jk (from https://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/webserver_howto/apache.html)

 # Load mod_jk module
    LoadModule    jk_module  modules/mod_jk.so
    # Add the module (activate this lne for Apache 1.3)
    # AddModule     mod_jk.c
    # Where to find workers.properties
    JkWorkersFile /etc/httpd/conf/workers.properties
    # Where to put jk shared memory
    JkShmFile     /var/log/httpd/mod_jk.shm
    # Where to put jk logs
    JkLogFile     /var/log/httpd/mod_jk.log
    # Set the jk log level [debug/error/info]
    JkLogLevel    info
    # Send requests for context /examples to worker named worker1
    JkMount  /examples/* worker1

and this is a simple setup for a reverse proxy which can be added to a VirtualHost or a Directory (official documentation:https://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/common_howto/proxy.html)

 ProxyRequests off 
 ProxyPass / http://localhost:8082/ 
 ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8082/

Additional settings after installation of Apache Tomcat in Ubuntu 16.04?

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