apache port forward
You have to use http://localhost:port to visit http://localhost, to help you omit the port part, now let us learn to configure apache2.
First to install apache2.
sudo apt-get install apache2
Then to add some modules that are used.
a2enmod proxy
a2enmod proxy_http
So now apache2 could proxy HTTP request.
Enter $APACHE_HOME/sites-available folder, create a file with content below:
# This is to capture all :80 port to here
<VirtualHost *:80>
#This means to capture this domain name
ServerName your.domain.name
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>
#This is to enable forward and backward proxy
#First line is to proxy all request from http://domain/ onto http://domain:port/
#ProxyPass /example http://yet.another.domain.name:port/other-example
ProxyPass / http://yet.another.domain.name:port/
ProxyPassReverse / http://yet.another.domain.name:port/
<Location /webapp>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Location>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/myapp.err
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/myapp.log common
</VirtualHost>Well seems we have done a lot, now you need to symbolic link this file to $APACHE_HOME/sites-enabled
cd $APACHE_HOME/sites-enabled
sudo ln -s ../sites-availables .
Now just reload apache by:
sudo service apache2 reload
To see if it works!
Cong if you got it done, along integrated with tomcat folder mapping, now we could use http://domain.name to visit our application which originally needs http://localhost:port/appname/