reverse proxy with Lighttpd

aegis — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:57:44 GMT

Hi, i just installed alfresco on ubuntu server 11.10.everything is running now and I'm trying to setup a reverse proxy with the webserver lighttpd but I can't seem too get it working.does any one know how to set it up.I want my url like so http://hostname/alfresco/I have this as config$HTTP["host"]

Re: reverse proxy with Lighttpd

sujaypillai — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:47:44 GMT

Hello Aegis,

First of all thanks for sharing this topic which made me to work on this. I got this working with below setup:

OS Name: Linux (Fedora - Laughlin)
OS Version: 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686
Architecture: i386
JVM Version:1.6.0_29-b11
Alfresco Version : 3.2 r [Enterprise]
Tomcat : Apache Tomcat/6.0.18
Lighttpd : v 1.7

Installed lighttpd by using - yum install lighttpd

Make the below change in lighttpd.conf [/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf] {this is default path for my case} —
"mod_proxy" module should be enabled in server.modules section

Add the below rule -
$HTTP["host"] =~ "192.168.2.10|localhost" {
        proxy.server    =       (       "" =>
                                        (
                                                "Alfresco" => ("host"=>"127.0.0.1","port"=>"8080","fix-redirects"=>1)
                                        )
                                )
}

This proxy directive makes lighttpd connect to Tomcat on the localhost on port 8080 whenever a request comes in on port 80 to lighttpd on the IP 192.168.2.10 OR localhost.
* 192.168.2.10 is the IP of the machine where Alfresco [Tomcat] & lighttpd is running.
** Mine Alfersco server is running on a VMware setup which has DHCP configuration and so this IP is going to change everytime.

Make sure that you have port 80 [lighttpd] & 8080 [Tomcat] as "Trusted Services" in Firewall configuration.

If you want httpd to connect to httpd/ftp ports you need to turn on the httpd_can_network_relay boolean and this can be done using the below command:
            "setsebool -P httpd_can_network_relay=1"

Make sure you are looking into access.log & error.log at /var/log/lighttpd to get more info about your error to debug.

Let me know how that works on your end.

Thanks,

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