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ASP_Palermo_311
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Feb 22, 2017

Balancing to Tomcat servers

I have many servers in a "Pools List" that are running Tomcat, now the full uri include: I want balance among the "Pools", but the user request mustn't include "port" (8080) or path, like: Is it ...
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Stanislas_Piro2
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Feb 27, 2017

Hi,

you must :

  • create the VS listening on port 80
  • create pool with member port 8080
  • create an irule or LTM policy redirecting URI / to /path_to_app/index.jsp
  • change Tomcat configuration with following configuration to write response page with external URLs (to prevent rewrite needs on the F5):

file /etc/tomcat6/server.xml

if the external service is HTTPS: