Railo / Apache / Tomcat / Mura CMS/ SES URL Gotcha
Another catchy title :) I've been trying for a day or two to get SES Urls working on Tomcat/Railo/Apache/Mura; Specifically, I'm thinking of the /index.cfm/something/ style syntax. Having installed Mura, I couldn't get any of the actual pages past the front page to work. I got an Apache 404 error. Sean Corfield's Blog gave me a good starting point. As I'd installed Railo via the Beta install script, my config was a little different to some which is what gave me the headache. Firstly, I had to get Tomcat to receive the requests, as Apache was serving me the 404s; In my Apache httpd.conf file, I had the following at the bottom:
JkMount /*.cfm ajp13
JkMount /*.cfc ajp13
JkMount /*.do ajp13
JkMount /*.jsp ajp13
JkMount /*.cfchart ajp13
JkMountCopy all
JkLogFile /var/log/httpd/mod_jk.log
Note, the *.cfm entry - this needs changing to:
JkMount /*.cfm* ajp13
This means apache matched the correct syntax to pass the request to Tomcat.
So at that point, I was getting 404's served by Tomcat rather than Apache; at least they were getting to the correct place.
For me, my Tomcat install lives in /opt/railo/tomcat/, so I found the web.xml file in /opt/railo/tomcat/conf/ and changed added a servlet mapping:
CFMLServlet /index.cfm/*
And then tried again with Mura. No joy - still 404's in Tomcat; Having re-read Sean's entry, it turns out you have to specify if you want the pattern to match a directory;
So the servlet mapping I'd put up would match /index.cfm/*, but not, as Mura users know, the default Mura behaviour of /default/index.cfm/*
Changing to:
CFMLServlet /default/index.cfm/*
Sorts it.
I know there's a jar file supplied by Mura to fix this - but with my seemingly different Tomcat config, I could work out how to get it working properly.
Next stage is going to have to be to get the URL rewriting working to get proper URLs like /about-us/, rather than /default/index.cfm/about-us/.
Tony Garcia wrote on 07/09/09 9:09 PM
http://www.getmura.com/index.cfm/blog/removing-the-siteid-from-urls-in-mura/