Running GlassFish V3 with Apache httpd

GlassFish V3 has improved the way to front GlassFish with Apache HTTP Server. Unlike the V2 way where users had to copy tomcat-ajp.jar and commons-*.jar, you can just enable mod_jk in V3 using the network-listener's attribute "jk-enabled" without copying any additional jars into its lib directory. You can also create jk-connectors under different virtual-servers (not just default virtual-server "server" in V2) using the network-listener's "jk-enabled" attribute.

Here are instructions.

(1) Install Apache HTTP Server and mod_jk

(2) Configure workers.properties and httpd.conf

For example, apache2/config/workers.properties

 # Define 1 real worker using ajp13<br />
worker.list=worker1<br />
# Set properties for worker1 (ajp13)<br />
worker.worker1.type=ajp13<br />
worker.worker1.host=localhost<br />
worker.worker1.port=8009<br />

 LoadModule jk_module /Users/Amy/apache2/modules/mod_jk-1.2.25-httpd-2.2.4.so<br />
JkWorkersFile /Users/Amy/apache2/conf/worker.properties<br />
# Where to put jk logs<br />
JkLogFile /Users/Amy/apache2/logs/mod_jk.log<br />
# Set the jk log level [debug/error/info]<br />
JkLogLevel debug<br />
# Select the log format<br />
JkLogStampFormat &quot;[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] &quot;<br />
# JkOptions indicate to send SSL KEY SIZE,<br />
JkOptions +ForwardKeySize +ForwardURICompat -ForwardDirectories<br />
# JkRequestLogFormat set the request format<br />
JkRequestLogFormat &quot;%w %V %T&quot;<br />
# Send everything for context /examples to worker named worker1 (ajp13)<br />
JkMount  /examples/* worker1<br />

(4) Enable mod_jk using the following command

<br />
asadmin set configs.config.server-config.network-config.network-listeners.network-listener.jk-connector.jk-enabled=true<br />

(5) If you are using the glassfish-jk.properties file and not referencing it in httpd.conf, point to it using the following command:

(6) Restart GlassFish

The network-listener attribute "jk-enabled" is available from V3 b53 or later.