reverse proxy question

Classic Servoy
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Hi

I’ve set up servoy server behind an apache server thats serving a website http://www.mysite.com (using a reverse proxy)

All works fine:
http://www.mysite.com/servoy-admin shows the servoy admin page etc…
However, http://www.mysite.com now resolves to the index.html page from Servoy. (showing the smart client starting page)

How do I make sure http://www.mysite.com keeps displaying the website?

Added settings to Apache Virtual host

ProxyPass /tunnel ajp://myservoyserver:8009/tunnel flushpackets=on
ProxyPass / http://myservoyserver:8080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://myservoyserver:8080/

Added http connector to application_server/server/conf/server.xml

<Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" connectionTimeout="60000" maxThreads="400" />

Added settings servoy-admin>Network Settings

servoy.jnlpCodebaseOverride: www.mysite.com

Thanks for any pointers.

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so you want everything from servoy working through www.mysite.com
but not the root?

you use this for smartclients?
Because if you do use it for smart client / should be mapped on the server server (for getting messages and so on)
That will make it tricky then i think, because what you want is that parts of / is servoy and some parts are not?
i guess you could move the complete site into webapps/ROOT folder of servoy?

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Hi Johan,

Thanks for replying.
I talked to Nicola Gervasi last night who gave me some good pointers.

  1. no need to proxy the servoy root dir, also for safety. So servoy admin remains on whatever:8080/servoy-admin

  2. I cleared “servoy.jnlpCodebaseOverride: http://www.mysite.com” in servor-admin>network settings, since this is only for smartclients. (i’m only aiming for webclient)

  3. In the http://www.mysite.com Virtual Host file I’ve only defined proxy paths that are necessary and added:

<Location "/servoy-webclient">
      # Enable compressions
      AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript     //helps compressing content
      ProxyPass ajp://127.0.0.1:8009/servoy-webclient flushpackets=on
      ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8080/servoy-webclient
 </Location>

Also add this path, otherwise images will be broken in the webclient

    # Reverse proxy to let webclient access the images folder
    <Location "/images">
      ProxyPass ajp://127.0.0.1:8009/images
      ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8080/images
    </Location>

iFrames on http://www.mysite.com working ok now when deeplinking to
http://www.mysite.com/servoy-webclient/ ss/s/mysolution/a/blabla

Hope this will help others improve their Apache Kung Fu skills ;-)
For ins and outs about reverse proxying Servoy , check http://www.sintpro.com . Thanks Nic!

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Thanks Maarten, glad to have been useful.