I have a simple static website (foo.com) served with Apache2. The static website has a link to get to an application served using tomcat. To do so, the link just points to foo.com:8080/app
The end goal is to avoid having the port number. I also want to avoid using mod_proxy or mod_jk because the two contents (the static pages and app) are fairly unrelated, so I think it would be an overkill. The common use case is static page->app [never come back]
Here are some options I have considered:
Run the app on a different machine, and map its IP to a subdomain (s1.foo.com). Then on this machine, use iptables to forward the 80 port to 8080, so that s1.foo.com/app works as expected.
Get an additional IP address for the one server. Have a subdomain point to that IP address, then use iptables to forward IP:8080 to IP:80.
My questions are 1) Are these sensible? 2) What steps should I follow so that I don't mess up my rule chains? 3) Are there better alternatives?
Thank you,