JBoss Application Server 7 on Port 80 with Apache HTTPd ProxyPass

It’s quite simple really. All you need to do is install Apache HTTPd, then set make sure you have a few modules installed and set up:

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The 9 steps to proxy success!

1. Install Apache2.
2. sudo a2enmod proxy
3. sudo a2enmod proxy_http
4. sudo a2enmod vhost_alias
5. sudo a2dissite default (only if you are not using this site, or haven’t made changes to it)
6. Create a file called jboss-as in /etc/apache2/sites-available:
   
   

   <VirtualHost *:80>
           ServerAdmin admin@site.com
           ServerName site.com
           ProxyRequests Off
           <Proxy *>
                   Order deny,allow
                   Allow from all
           </Proxy>
           ProxyPreserveHost on
           ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
   </VirtualHost>

7. sudo a2ensite jboss-as
8. Make sure your JBoss AS 7 instance is running on port 8080, and is accepting connections from localhost.
9. sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart -or- service apache2 restart

In summary

That’s it! Your JBoss AS 7 instance should now be available on Port 80. You can, of course, make further customizations to this configuration; it is merely a bare minimal example in order to get up and running.

As always, I hope this has been helpful. Please let me know how it works for you!