Orbeon Forms with Apache Tomcat 5.5, Apache2 and AJP connectors: httpd.conf?

All,

I'm looking to deploy my Orbeon Forms application to a Tomcat + Apache
+ AJP environment, and I am currently developing my httpd.conf.

I have two applications, both of which are hosted in a single Orbeon
web application running in Tomcat. Here is the relevant part of my
pageflow.xml:

    <page id="app1" path-info="/mpid" view="mpid/index.xhtml"/>
    <page id="app2" path-info="/icsr" view="icsr/index.xhtml"/>

In my hosting environment I am attempting to set up an Apache2
frontend to Apache Tomcat using the AJP connector. This in itself is
fairly straight-forward, but the rewriterules get complicated (well,
for me...).

I have attempted to follow these instructions:
http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/reference-xforms-configuration#apache

but they are not exactly what I am looking for.

It is also worth noting that these notes on Orbeon/Apache are
out-of-date, and no longer works (2006):
http://blog.orbeon.com/2006/12/configuring-apache-front-end-for-orbeon_27.html

My requirements are as follows:

A. I need the two URLS defined in my Orbeon pageflow to be available
at these locations:

    http://{client-name}.{base-url}.com/app1, e.g.
amazon.zipconsulting.com/form1
    and
    http://{client-name}.{base-url}.com/app2, e.g.
amazon.zipconsulting.com/form2

   Note how the URL does not contain the "/orbeon/" substring.

B. Apache2 must connect to Apache Tomcat 5.5 using the AJP connector.
Here is a simple example of how I think this would work:

    <VirtualHost *>
        ServerName myclient.myserver.com
        RewriteEngine on
        ...
        RewriteRule ^(.*) ajp://localhost:8009/orbeon/$1 [P,L]
        ...

        or something along these lines.

C. We would prefer to still have the static Orbeon resources served up
by Apache2 instead of Tomcat 5.5, like it is described here:
    http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/reference-xforms-configuration#apache


Does anyone have a sample httpd.conf I can have a lok at? I'm no
Apache experts, and I feel like I might be reinventing the wheel here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks!

Henrik Pettersen
Sparkling Ideas, ltd.
for the European Medicines Agency


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Henrik,

I have successfully configured Apache as a front end to Orbeon (Tomcat) using the same documentation you have referenced.

I attach documentation for my own configuration, I hope it helps. There is extra information in there that you will have to ignore (rewrite logging, SSL).

apache-tomcat-config-20091020.txt

It's the end of the working week for me so I can't be any more help right now, but please post again if this isn't enough and I'll do my best to help after the weekend.

Best wishes,

Tom

Hi Tom, all,

thank you for all your help, it's very much appreciated!
Unfortunately, I'm no an apache expert...

Is it true that this httpd.conf:
http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1819515/apache-tomcat-config-20091020.txt

would host the application at:
http://{client-name}.{base-url}.com/orbeon/{form}, e.g.
amazon.zipconsulting.com/orbeon/form ?

If so, we are very close: I just need to get rid of the '/orbeon/'
part of the URL, such that it becomes:
http://{client-name}.{base-url}.com/{form}, e.g. amazon.zipconsulting.com/form

I like to have my URLs technology/implementation agnostic...

Many thanks for all your help!

Henrik


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Hi Henrik, Tom

I believe you can use the ProxyPass directive as an alternative to using a
RewriteRule.

I have successfully used in the past:

ProxyPass /orbeon ajp://localhost:8009/orbeon

In this situation you probably want something like

ProxyPass /yourapp ajp://localhost:8009/orbeon/yourapp

Or even

ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8009/orbeon/

But I confess I have only tried the first example (where the source and ajp
URL paths are the same).

Regards
Steve


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Henrik,

Wouldn't deploying Orbeon Forms on / rather than /orbeon at the Tomcat
level solve this? (i.e. placing the war in webapps/ROOT or defining in
server.xml a <Context path="" docBase="path/to/orbeon"/>.)

Alex

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Agreed, making Orbeon the root Tomcat app is the only way I know to solve this. In the past I have also renamed the orbeon.war to something more appropriate, though that's not really a solution.

Also I suspect using the ProxyPass directive is more appropriate that using URL rewriting, I'm now looking into this myself.

Best,

Tom