: How to run WordPress and Java web app running on Tomcat on the same server? I have to run a WordPress site served via Apache2 & Java-based webapp using Tomcat on the same server. When

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I have to run a WordPress site served via Apache2 & Java-based webapp using Tomcat on the same server.

When users come to example.com or example.com/public-pages they need to served from WordPress but when they come to example.com/private-pages they need to be served from the Tomcat.

I have asked this question on serverfault where they suggested using different port, different IP & sub-domain.

I want to go for different port solution since it will mean I need to buy only one SSL certificate.

I tried doing the reverse proxy method by having the following in my default-ssl.conf

<VirtualHost _default_:443>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName localhost:443

DocumentRoot /var/www

<Directory /var/www>
#For Wordpress
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass /private-pages ajp://localhost:8009/
ProxyPassReverse /private-pages ajp://localhost:8009/

SSLEngine on
SSLProxyEngine On

SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key

</VirtualHost>

As you have noticed I am using mod_proxy_ajp in Apache2 for this. And that my Tomcat is listening to port 8009 and then serving content. So now when I go to example.com/private-pages I am seeing the content from my Tomcat. But 2 issues are happening.

All my static resources are getting 404-ed, so none of my images, CSS, js are getting loaded. I see that the browser is requesting for the resources using URL example.com/css/* This will clearly not work because it translates to example.com:80/css/* instead of example.com:8009/css/* & there are no such resources in the WordPress directory.
If I go to example.com/private-pages/abcd I am somehow kicked to the WordPress site (which obviously displays a 404 page).

I can understand why #1 is happening but have no clue why the #2 is happening. Regardless, if there is another clean solution for resolving this, I would appreciate y'alls help.

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@Rivera981

I was able to finally resolve the issue by doing couple of things.

Renamed the WAR file in my tomcat, in this case private-pages
In my virtual hosts definition I changed ajp:// to reflect the above change.

Here is virtual hosts file,

<VirtualHost _default_:443>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName localhost:443

DocumentRoot /var/www

<Directory /var/www>
#For Wordpress
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>

ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass /private-pages ajp://localhost:8009/private-pages
ProxyPassReverse /private-pages ajp://localhost:8009/private-pages

<Location /private-pages>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Location>

SSLEngine on
SSLProxyEngine On

SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key

</VirtualHost>

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@Heady270

I suggest you use mod_rewrite to specify which directory gets the reverse proxy. Part of your problem is that the rewrite rules for WordPress are stealing requests from the proxy. If you use mod_rewrite for the proxy, then you can specify [L] to indicate that the proxy rule is the last rewrite rule and that the WordPress rewrite rules shouldn't be used.

ProxyRequests off
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/private-pages ajp://localhost:8009/ [P,L]
ProxyPassReverse /private-pages ajp://localhost:8009/

To solve your CSS problem, you could use mod_proxy_html which could be configured to rewrite all the HTML that comes back through the proxy and replace references to /css/ with /private-pages/css.

Alternately, you could modify the web application that is running inside Tomcat7 to be proxy aware. mod_proxy can be configured to send via: headers. It also sends x-forwarded headers that your web app could examine and know that it is running in a reverse proxy situation.

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