Java Thinking

I thought it would be a good idea to redirect requests to http://javathinking.com to http://www.javathinking.com and I found out how to do that easily here. Basically I just needed to add the apache directives: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^javathinking.com RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.javathinking.com$1 [R=permanent,L] In ISPConfig this can be done easily through the administration console rather than editing the apache config files. Firebug shows me that I am now getting a 301 redirect when accessing http://javathinking.com.

In production I use Apache2 in front of Tomcat. The configuration for this is quite simple and standard. However, while developing Grails applications I wanted to run the same configuration, so that there are very few differences between my development and production environments. In Apache, I use named virtual hosts to forward to Tomcat, and Tomcat is configured with web applications corresponding to the virtual host name, with just '/' as the context path. Grails uses Jetty, and when running 'grails run-app' a Jetty container is configured and started. This is fine for me, I don't think I really need to switch to Tomcat in development, but running Apache2 in front of it would be very nice. This way I don't need to worry about differences in URLs. I'm not familiar with Jetty at all, so the simplest and fastest way to get this working was to make a copy of the RunApp.groovy script that comes with Grails and change it so that it looks for the context path def...

I've been trying to put Apache2 in front of my Grails Jetty instance so that I can have common resources served by httpd and not included in my Grails web application. I enabled the proxy module , but always got 403 forbidden errors. Searching around the web turned up this post , which lead me to check which modules were loaded. Where I had simply done: a2enmod proxy I really need to also do: a2enmod proxy_http a2enmod proxy_connect Of course, after enabling these modules, remember to force a reload: /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload