Comments on: Configure Apache to run Tomcat and PHP

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:55:07 +0000

Thanks for a wonderful post, l ve been looking for such information, I will join jour rss feed now.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:33:00 +0000

Thanks Rob for your response.

Yup, the problem is different but I was looking for some ideas in this area. How we can do SSO where Apache is frontending and forwarding the request to tomcat using ajp or rendering wordpress.

Portal could be one of the option but I don’t want to go there yet.

I am still looking for a clean solution.

Anywayz, thanks for your response.

By: Rob James

Rob James — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:39:17 +0000

I believe that the problem you are trying to solve is quite different to the above.

You will want to get WordPress’s Authentication mecnahism to auth against something else other than itself (ie/ oAuth or LDAP etc). I believe there are some plugins available for WordPress that allow you to do that. Failing that, you may have to change some of the code on WordPress’s Auth files.

Tomcat has container security, but since WordPress is PHP and runs on Apache, you can’t use that.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:55:15 +0000

What do you think about authentication?
I have something similar. I would like a SSO like scenario where all the users accessing wordpress are authenticated against application database not against wordpress database.

How would you recommned to do that?

By: Rob James

Rob James — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:41:38 +0000

@Brian pleasure, a script would be useful so that it is fairly straight forward, otherwise, its quite a headache as you can see.

@Rohit I am not much of a windows person, but I would imagine the installation process would be windows specific, but the configuration would be similar to what I wrote above. The only thing that would be very different is file locations.

@Kevin I hope yo get value out of it!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:16:25 +0000

Bookmarked it. Been long for such a tech article for both Tomcat and Apache

By: Rohit

Rohit — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:40:07 +0000

Rob, I have been trying to do this on windows (XP)without success. Could you please show me how I can do this on windows. Thanks.

By: Brian Easley

Brian Easley — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:55:03 +0000

I’ve made a note to get a template together with this already done on it for our VPS customers.

Thanks for the mention Rob, it’s much appreciated.

By: Rob James

Rob James — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:43:45 +0000

Glad to help!!! I spent days looking for documentation, and when I didn’t find any, I needed to put down what I learnt…

By: Mike P

Mike P — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:38:14 +0000

This is exactly what I wanted to do! Thanks much for this concise how-to!