I’m working on getting CommandBox to support multiple Lucee contexts and I think I’m missing something. In the first instance I’m trying to do this on a Mac using Apache/ModCFML but I also need to do this on Windows with IIS/BonCode. For Apache I have the following enabled in my httpd.conf

LoadModule proxy_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_html_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_html.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule proxy_ajp_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_ajp.so

LoadModule modcfml_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_cfml.so
CFMLHandlers ".cfm .cfc .cfml"
ModCFML_SharedKey "mySharedKey"

For each of the sites I have:

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName mySite1

	ProxyPreserveHost On
	ProxyPass / <http://localhost:8500/> nocanon
	ProxyPassReverse / <http://localhost:8500/>

	ProxyPassMatch ^/(.+\.cf[cm])(/.*)?$ <ajp://localhost:8009/$1$2>
</VirtualHost>

Where the

ServerName

changes and the

ProxyPass

and

ProxyPassReverse

port numbers increment by 1 each time. For each of the sites I have a similar

server.json

{
    "name":"mySite1",
    "web":{
        "host":"mySite1,
        "http":{
            "port":"8500"
        },
        "rewrites":{
            "enable":"true"
        },
        "ajp":{
            "enable":"true",
            "port":"8009"
        }
    },
    "app":{
        "cfengine":"lucee@5.3.4+77"
    },
    "modcfml":{
        "enable":"true",
        "sharedKey":"mySharedKey"
    }
}

Where the values of

name/host

and

port

change in sync with the Apache settings. If I start up CommandBox and start my “base” server on localhost:8500 it come up and I can also access the Lucee admin but I don’t see any of the other contexts in the foot of the Admin Overview page. What am I missing?

@richard.herbert if you're using the new ModCFML feature, then you only need a single CommandBox server. That means only one server.json, only one server process, and only one AJP port.

Okay, I can understand that but then how do I get the contexts for the other sites?

Not sure what you mean when you say "get the contexts".

I’m not seeing them. How do I add them? I guess that’s the understanding I’m missing.

You don't

Yes, I think I’ve been following that correctly. As you can see I’ve got the

ModCFML

section in my

server.json

So let’s back up a bit. Would you say that my Apache config looks right?

No, not if each virtual host is proxying to a different port, lol

They are created automatically as traffic hits the Lucee sever from each webroot

So how do I direct traffic to the one instance of Lucee from each of the webroots is, I guess, the part I’m missing? I’m guessing this line from each vhost is forwarding the request onto AJP on port 8009…

ProxyPassMatch ^/(.+\.cf[cm])(/.*)?$ <ajp://localhost:8009/$1$2>

…and tis section from the one instance of Lucee that is running on CommandBox should be listerning for that request and creating the context on the fly?

"ajp":{
            "enable":"true",
            "port":"8009"
        }

The apache and mod_cfml config should look just like it would on a standard tomcat-based lucee install.

No, not if each virtual host is proxying to a different port, lol

So this should be the same on every vhost?

ProxyPass / <http://localhost:8500/> nocanon
	ProxyPassReverse / <http://localhost:8500>

Rather than each be on a different port?

I'm guessing mod cfml isn't set up

You’re right the port 8500 thing was a hang over from when I had multiple servers running at the same time, which I’m trying to get away from. So should I be saying this…

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName mySite1

	ProxyPreserveHost On
	ProxyPass / <http://localhost:8009/> nocanon
	ProxyPassReverse / <http://localhost:8009/>

	ProxyPassMatch ^/(.+\.cf[cm])(/.*)?$ <ajp://localhost:8009/$1$2>
</VirtualHost>

Or remove the

ProxyPass

and

ProxyPassReverse

entries? Regarding the logging, should I be doing

server start --debug --console

to see those headers in flight?

That's one way to see the console log. I'm not really an expert on the apache side and haven't messed with it in a long time. I'd refer to the modcfml docs gor the apache connector

So it’s possible you’re doing way too much work there

I think you might be right but I’m really flapping around trying to work this thing out. My mental model of waht happening is very poor! So setting…

ProxyPass / <http://localhost:8009/> nocanon
	ProxyPassReverse / <http://localhost:8009/>

…produced…

Proxy Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request

Reason: Error reading from remote server

…and removing those entries completely render the default Apache webroot…

It works!

…so that’s not a good idea 😞 So I don’t know how to address your advice…

Are you trying to proxy traffic over 8500 (http) or 8009 (ajp), because it doesn’t make sense to have both

Did you check the console output?

Sorry @bdw429s, I wasn’t ignoring you, I’d just got to the end of a long day (timezones) and I hope you’re asleep right now 🙂 With your advice I think I have a better understanding of how this hangs together so I’m going to start again with a stripped down Apache/CommandBox/Lucee setup and try and log everthing. I’ll report back here when I have something sensible to say.