Is it possible to use ProxyPass with only one ip address

Question

I am looking to achieve this configuration. So I tried this but the server is allways looking for server_test and server_prod in the htdocs under Apache. What I want is to redirect the request to the Tomcat server. If I use different ports without the /server_test and /server_prod, it worked but it's not what I wanted.

<virtualhost mydomaine.com/server_test:80>
    ServerName mydomaine.com    
    ProxyRequests Off  
    ProxyPass / ajp://internalIp:8008/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://mydomaine.com/server_test/
    ProxyPassReverseCookiePath / /
</virtualhost>

<virtualhost mydomaine.com/server_prod:80>
    ServerName mydomaine.com    
    ProxyRequests Off     
    ProxyPass / ajp://internalIp:8009/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://mydomaine.com/server_prod/
    ProxyPassReverseCookiePath / /
</virtualhost>

Any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

Try this:

<virtualhost mydomaine.com:80>
   ServerName mydomaine.com    
   ProxyRequests Off  
   ProxyPass /server_test ajp://internalIp:8008/
   ProxyPass /server_prod ajp://internalIp:8009/
   ProxyPassReverse /server_test ajp://internalIp:8008/
   ProxyPassReverse /server_prod ajp://internalIp:8009/
</virtualhost>

However, you would not be able to use ProxyPassReverseCookiePath, because both Tomcat sites would set cookies with / as the path.

To make it work as I believe you want, you need to have two separate VirtualHosts. If you only have one IP address, you need to use name-based virtual hosts.

For example, add a subdomain test.mydomaine.com that has the same IP address as mydomaine.com. Then use this configuration:

NameVirtualHost mydomaine.com:80
<virtualhost mydomaine.com:80>
  ServerName mydomaine.com    
  ProxyRequests Off
  ProxyPass / ajp://internalIp:8009/
  ProxyPassReverse / ajp://internalIp:8009/
</virtualhost>
<virtualhost mydomaine.com:80>
  ServerName test.mydomaine.com    
  ProxyRequests Off  
  ProxyPass / ajp://internalIp:8008/
  ProxyPassReverse / ajp://internalIp:8008/
</virtualhost>

You can then access your production site at http://mydomaine.com/ and your test site at http://test.mydomaine.com/.