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Asked: 2026-06-07T21:40:35+00:00

This is an odd problem. I have a site that is not rendering it’s

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This is an odd problem. I have a site that is not rendering it’s code correctly. It is a Tomcat 5.0.27-2 server (I know… old) and Apache 2.0.46-77 server. We cannot upgrade them at the moment as that is a bigger change than we are allowed for now.

Anyway, here’s what happens:

Go to https://mysite.com/mysite and the JSP renders correctly
Go to https://www.mysite.com/mysite and the RAW JSP is displayed, no rendering
Go to https://1.2.3.4/mysite and you get the TomCat welcome page.

Had to use a code block as i couldn’t post an invalid IP url.

I’m sure it’s a configuration setting, but I don’t know what it could be. There is an issue that the SSL we have issued was for mysite.com and not http://www.mysite.com, but i don’t think that is what is causing it. I would be happy if I could just redirect all traffic (www.mysite.com and the IP) to mysite.com instead.

I looked at the httpd.conf file. I current have the following in the VirtualHosts:

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80>
 ServerName mysite.com
 DocumentRoot /mysite_root/ROOT
 ServerAdmin me@me.com
<Location "/*.jsp">
  JkUriSet worker ajp13:localhost:8009
</Location>
<Location "/*/*.jsp">
  JkUriSet worker ajp13:localhost:8009
</Location>
<Location "/*/*/*/*/*/*.jsp">
  JkUriSet worker ajp13:localhost:8009
</Location>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
  RewriteRule .* - [F]
</VirtualHost>

I have updated the files as follows:

httpd.conf

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80>
 ServerName mysite.com
 DocumentRoot /mysite_root/ROOT
 ServerAdmin me@me.com
 JkMount /*.jsp worker1
 JkMount /servlet/* worker1
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite.com [nocase]
 RewriteRule ^(.*)         https://www.mysite.com/$1 [last,redirect=301]
</VirtualHost>

ssl.conf

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:443>
 ServerName mysite.com
 DocumentRoot /mysite_root/ROOT
 ServerAdmin me@me.com
 JkMount /*.jsp worker1
 JkMount /servlet/* worker1
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite.com [nocase]
 RewriteRule ^(.*)         https://www.mysite.com/$1 [last,redirect=301]
</VirtualHost>

mod_jk.conf

LoadModule  jk_module   modules/mod_jk.so
<IfModule jk_module>
  JkWorkersFile /etc/httpd/conf/workers.properties
  JkShmFile     /var/log/httpd/mod_jk.shm
  JkLogFile     /var/log/httpd/mod_jk.log
  JkLogLevel    info
  JkLogStampFormat "[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] "
  JkWatchdogInterval 60  
</IfModule>

workers.properties

worker.list=worker1

worker.worker1.type=ajp13
worker.worker1.host=localhost
work.worker1.port=8009

When i restart httpd, there are no errors and it sees the java_home and catalina_home

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to make sure that your JkMount directives are duplicated in all of the <VirtualHost> sections that you have in httpd.conf. If you don’t have a JkMount for one of the cases, then Apache httpd will serve the request instead.

    Your problem also indicates that you are Aliasing a URI to your webapp’s docBase. This is not recommended technique, as it can allow remote clients to request things such as /META-INF/context.xml or /WEB-INF/web.xml and get all kinds of great information about your webapp (database credentials, etc.).

    Also, Tomcat 5.0 is so painfully out of date you really need to get with the program.

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