I was wondering if there might be a way to place a context prefix in fromt of the liferay application which would simplify these proxies, like instead of the liferay requests looking like:

server:8080/c/...
server:8080/html....

they could be configured to be accessed at:


server:8080/liferay/c/...
server:8080/liferay/html....

and then you would only have to proxy /liferay to the tomcat server from apache.

Does anyone know if this is possible? It seems like it should be do-able.

/c is just the Tomcat mapping (in web.xml) for MainServlet.
You can move that and all other mappings around as you like.

It's all just standard Tomcat servlet mappings.

Beside the web.xml change, here's some extra steps:

http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/FAQ#How_do_I_deploy_Liferay_to_a_context_different_than_ROOT_.28starting_with_Tomcat_5.5_standalone.29

-Dafang

thanks a lot! I'll give this a try