[Dspace-general] redirecting port 8080 to 80

[Tim Donohue]

Hennie,

Here at UIUC, we have DSpace 1.3.1 running on Tomcat with Apache, on a 
RedHat box (RHEL 3.2).
We have Apache 2.0.46 redirecting to Tomcat 5.5.9 for all DSpace 
requests using the "mod_jk" Connector (available at 
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_tomcat.html).

Here's the basic steps:
1) Get DSpace up and running on Tomcat.  Make sure you can access it 
through port 8080 (e.g. http://my-host:8080/dspace).  It sounds like you 
already have this in place, from your email.
2) Follow the installation & configuration instructions for Apache HTTPD 
that I've attached in a PDF.   These instructions are occasionally a 
little specific to RedHat, but hopefully they will give you at least a 
general idea of how to get the "mod_jk" Connector setup to connect 
Apache & Tomcat.  I've copied these instructions from a larger 
installation document that I've created....but I didn't want to send out 
the larger document across this mailing list, so I just cut out the 
sections pertaining to configuring Apache with mod_jk.
3) After you have "mod_jk" installed, make sure  your "jk.conf" (or 
"httpd.conf") has a line like:
JkMount /* ajp13     (if your DSpace has a path like 
"http://my-hostname:8080/")
OR
JkMount /dspace/* ajp13 (if your DSpace has a path like 
"http://my-hostname:8080/dspace/")

This line will forward all connections to that particular "context" in 
Apache to the AJP13 connector (which, if you've configured it right, 
will forward on to port 8080, Tomcat!)

Let me know if you have any questions...again, we don't have Solaris 
here, so I most likely cannot answer any Solaris specific questions.  
But, I may be able to clear up any configuration questions you may have.

Tim

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Hennie Rautenbach wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have installed dspace on a Sun machine (Solaris 10), which already 
> has apache running on it. Folk here would prefer to have dspace 
> running on port 80. I read the releveant in fo in the docs but I am 
> not keen to redo the entire installation. Is it possible to have a URL 
> rewritten to another on a different port (apache) ? Not sure if I am 
> expressing myself correctly. I want all traffic to be relayed on the 
> same machine from apache to tomcat. Can this be done ? Do any of you 
> have any pointers ?
>
> Looking forward to any advice.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Hennie
>
>
>
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