mod_rewrite and mod_jk with apache front-end to tomcat

Hi,

I should start by asking forgiveness for my lack of complete understanding
of apache and tomcat--I'm pretty new to this. If you need clarification
(and you probably will) please ask. I'm posting here because I really need
to get this working quickly, and I'm hoping someone out there is familiar
with this type of setup. I need to set up apache to act as a front-end to
tomcat. The reason for this is I have to eliminate :8080 from the URL
provided by tomcat. In other words, I need my URLs to go from this:
http://machine.domain.com:8080/more/stuff/stuff.html
to this:
http://machine.domain.com/more/stuff/stuff.html

I've got the jk connector working to a certain degree, but navigating away
from the first tab once again gives me 8080 in the URL. I'm guessing at
this point I've moved away from the apache server. Not sure. Perhaps
there's something in the Jk setup that would help me. It seems like what I
need to do is have apache rewrite tomcat's URLs, and I'm starting to move in
that direction, but so far my experiments have been unsuccessful.

Any help/direction would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

Mark

Unfortunately I am not at liberty to change the port on which tomcat runs.


"Davide Bianchi" <davideyeahsure@onlyforfun.net> wrote in message
news:slrnd2rso3.15e.davideyeahsure@fogg.onlyforfun .net...
> On 2005-03-08, Mark <markn@nothing.com> wrote:
>> tomcat. The reason for this is I have to eliminate :8080 from the URL
>
> The easy way is to have Tomcat listening to port 80, that is done
> by modifying the server.xml configuration file of tomcat.
>
> But, if you want Apache to serve static (.html and .jpg) content while
> Tomcat take care of the dynamic (.jsp) content, then you need both.
>
>> I've got the jk connector working to a certain degree, but navigating
>> away
>> from the first tab once again gives me 8080 in the URL.
>
> Probably because you have the :8080 built-in in the URL that you
> are presenting to the user. You need to adapt your application to avoid
> using the :8080 at all.
>
>> need to do is have apache rewrite tomcat's URLs
>
> No, since when you get the :8080 is too late.
>
> Davide
>
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