I have setup Apache, Tomcat, and LetsEncrypt following the tutorials available and my website homepage is running. I am trying to setup a reverse proxy to webapps on Tomcat, though every tutorial I have followed results in failure. I don’t know how to figure out what is happening behind the scenes, i.e., why the request is not going through, so I cannot figure out how to fix the issue.
Tomcat server.xml Connector <Connector protocol=“AJP/1.3” address=“0.0.0.0” secretRequired=“false” port=“8009” redirectPort=“8443” proxyName=“www.example.com” proxyPort=“80” />
I have a <virtualhost *:80> in apache config. ProxyPass /example ajp://localhost:8009/example
I tried setting up a <virtualhost *:443> as well, but when I link to the cert file from letsencrypt, the server fails to start. I have tried a number of different configurations but I am just not able to get it working if anyone has a sample configuration with this setup that is functioning, it would be really helpful. Thank you.
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To update, when I go directly to the ip address for the site, the proxy is working, but not when I got to the named site.
I resolved the issue. Let’s Encrypt creates a config file for the website that I did not know about. Whenever I attempted to modify the settings of the virtual host at port 443, it would conflict and break. I changed the *:80 to redirect to https site (rather that rewrite) and I removed everything from there except the servername and alias. Then, in the example.com-le-ssl.conf file created by letsencrypt, I added the proxypass. If anyone sees this and has a similar problem, hopefully this answer helps. The one thing about scripts is that I can’t always tell when things are created because I had checked that folder earlier to remove defaults and did not realize that something was added.
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