Quick blog to update the way you can front GlassFish with Apache httpd. Starting with build 41, all Jakarta Commons classes has been renamed from org.apache.* to com.sun.org.apache.* . Since mod_jk uses some of those classes, you need to add a couple of Jakarta Commons packages to make it works. Let's do it steps by steps:

(1) First, install mod_jk

Next steps is to configure httpd.conf and worker.properties. For example, add in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:


LoadModule jk_module /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_jk.so
JkWorkersFile /etc/httpd/conf/worker.properties
# Where to put jk logs
JkLogFile /var/log/httpd/mod_jk.log
# Set the jk log level [debug/error/info]
JkLogLevel debug
# Select the log format
JkLogStampFormat "[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] "
# JkOptions indicate to send SSL KEY SIZE,
JkOptions +ForwardKeySize +ForwardURICompat -ForwardDirectories
# JkRequestLogFormat set the request format
JkRequestLogFormat "%w %V %T"
# Send all jsp requests to GlassFish
JkMount /*.jsp worker1
# Send all glassfish-test requests to GlassFish
JkMount /glassfish-test/* worker1


The add in your /etc/httpd/conf/worker.properties


# Define 1 real worker using ajp13
worker.list=worker1
# Set properties for worker1 (ajp13)
worker.worker1.type=ajp13
worker.worker1.host=localhost.localdomain
worker.worker1.port=8009
worker.worker1.lbfactor=50
worker.worker1.cachesize=10
worker.worker1.cache_timeout=600
worker.worker1.socket_keepalive=1
worker.worker1.socket_timeout=300


Start httpd.

(2) Copy, from a fresh Tomcat 5.5.16 installation


cp $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/tomcat-ajp.jar
$GLASSFISH_HOME/lib/.


Next, copy commons-logging.jar and commons-modeler.jar from the Jakarta Commons site under to $GLASSFISH_HOME/lib/.

(3) Then enable mod_jk by adding:


$GLASSFISH_HOME/bin/asadmin create-jvm-options -Dcom.sun.enterprise.web.connector.enableJK=8009


Then start GlassFish. That's it!
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