URL redirect with apache

Question

I've installed JIRA and configured it to operate on port 8090. In order to get to it I go to the following URL:

http://localhost:8090

What I want to do is to make it accessible through this URL:

http://localhost/jira/

Is there a way through apache or tomcat to make this happen?

I'm running Apache2, Tomcat6 on Ubuntu.

Answer 1

if you can use mod_proxy on apache, try doing this in the default vhost:

ProxyPass /jira/ http://localhost:8090 ProxyPassReverse /jira/ http://localhost:8090

this should always keep your url to http://localhost/jira meanwhile in the background it proxies to the port on 8090

Answer 2

EDIT: It looks like I misunderstood the OP's question.

If Apache is listening on :80, and you would like the /jira path to proxy transparently back to your tomcat instance listening on :8090, then the mod_proxy solution provided by coderwhiz is the most straight-forward way of doing so.

mod_proxy should be included in the apache2.2-bin package, so it should already be installed.