[opencms-dev] Apache and Tomcat Integration

[Ben Rometsch]

Hi There,

Can someone explain the steps required to get an OpenCMS site running with
Apache2 and Tomcat? I've spent hours trying to figure this out and am going
nuts!
 
I have a virtual host setup in Apache2 so that requests going to a specific
DNS are handled by the openCMS webapp in Tomcat. My current httpd.conf
fragment looks like this:
 
-----------
<VirtualHost blahblah.blahblah.com>
   JkMount /opencms ajp13
   JkMount /opencms/* ajp13

   JkMount /*.jsp ajp13

   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule /(.*) /opencms/opencms/RGLIntranet/$1 [PT]

   <Directory /opt/tomcat/webapps/opencms>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
-----------

And in the tomcat server.xml I have: 

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<Host name="dvrglsolidstategroup.gotdns.org" debug="0" appBase="webapps"
unpackWARs="false">
   <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
directory="logs" prefix="intranet" suffix=".log" timestamp="true"/>
   <Context path="" docBase="opencms" debug="0" reloadable="true"/>
</Host>
-----------

The application is called RGLIntranet. Note that I have not made changes to
WEB-INF/web.xml or WEB-INF/config/opencms.properties yet (I have seen docs
refer to this - more later. Now, if I go to blahblah.blahblah.com I get the
site but the images are broken. If I edit web.xml and swap

<servlet-name>OpenCmsServlet</servlet-name>
With
<url-pattern>/opencms/*</url-pattern> 

And then edit WEB-INF/config/opencms.properties and swap 

url_prefix_http=/${WEB_APP_NAME}/opencms
With
url_prefix_http=

I get a tomcat "The requested resource () is not available." error. 

Is there a simple guide on how to do this? It seems absurdly complex for
such a standard setup...

Thanks,
Ben