AVAJAVA Web Tutorials

Perhaps the easiest way to connect ApacheSW to TomcatSW is to use a proxy. This dinky little tutorial will show you how.

In some other tutorials, we used a 'tomcat-demo' project that we created in EclipseSW to demonstrate various aspects of JavaSW web development. This project features a TestServlet class that's mapped to 'test' on the URL string. I'll go ahead and fire up my 'tomcat-demo' project in Eclipse.

I'll verify that 'tomcat-demo' is running by hitting the tomcat-demo test servletW in a browser (http://localhost:8080/tomcat-demo/test).

Next, I'll go into my Tomcat server.xml file and uncomment the 8082 proxy Connector.

<Connector port="8082" 
	maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
	enableLookups="false" acceptCount="100" connectionTimeout="20000"
	proxyPort="80" disableUploadTimeout="true" />

I'll stop and restart 'tomcat-demo' in Eclipse. After that, I'll try hitting the test servlet in a browser. However, this time I'll hit it on port 8082 (http://localhost:8082/tomcat-demo/test):

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