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<html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><title>The Apache Tomcat Connector - Reference Guide - uriworkermap.properties configuration</title><meta name="author" value="Rainer Jung"><meta name="email" value="rjung@apache.org"><meta name="author" value="Mladen Turk"><meta name="email" value="mturk@apache.org"><link href="../../style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"></head><body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#525D76" alink="#525D76" vlink="#525D76"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="4"><!--PAGE HEADER--><tr><td colspan="2"><!--TOMCAT LOGO--><a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/"><img src="../../images/tomcat.gif" align="left" alt="Apache Tomcat" border="0"></a><!--APACHE LOGO--><a href="http://www.apache.org/"><img src="http://www.apache.org/images/asf-logo.gif" align="right" alt="Apache Logo" border="0"></a></td></tr><!--HEADER SEPARATOR--><tr><td colspan="2"><hr noshade size="1"></td></tr><tr><!--RIGHT SIDE MAIN BODY--><td width="80%" valign="top" align="left"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="4"><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><h1>The Apache Tomcat Connector - Reference Guide</h1><h2>uriworkermap.properties configuration</h2></td><td align="right" valign="top" nowrap="true"><img src="../../images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Introduction"><strong>Introduction</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<p>
The forwarding of requests from the web server to tomcat gets configured by defining mapping rules.
Such a rule maps requests to workers. The request part of the map is described by a URI pattern,
the worker by it's worker name.
</p>
<p>
The so-called <b>uriworkermap</b> file is a mechanism of defining rules,
which works for all web servers. There exist also other web server specific configuration
options for defining rules, which will be mostly discussed on the reference pages for
configuring tomcat connectors for the individual web servers.
</p>
<p>
The name of the file is usually uriworkermap.properties,
although this is configurable in the web server.
Please consult the web server specific documentation pages on
how to enable the uriworkermap file.
</p>
<p>
The main features supported by the uriworkermap file are
<ul>
<li>
Support for comments in the rule file.
</li>
<li>
Exact and wildchar matches, shortcuts to map a directory and all including content.
</li>
<li>
Exclusion rules, disabling of rules and rule priorities.
</li>
<li>
Rule extensions, modifying worker behaviour per rule.
</li>
<li>
Virtual host integration: uri mapping rules can be expressed per virtual host.
The details are web server specific though.
</li>
<li>
Dynamic reloading: The file gets checked periodically for changes.
New versions are automatically reloaded without web server restarts.
</li>
<li>
Integration with the status worker.
</li>
</ul>
The following sections describe these aspects in more detail.
</p>
</blockquote></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Syntax"><strong>Syntax</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Line format"><strong>Line format</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<p>
The file has a line based format. There are no continuation characters,
so each rule needs to be defined on a single line. Each rule is a pair consisting
of a URI pattern and a worker name, combined by an equals sign '=':
<div class="example"><pre>
/myapp=myworker
</pre></div>
The URI pattern is case sensitive.
</p>
</blockquote></td></tr></table>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Comments, white space"><strong>Comments, white space</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<p>
All text after and including the character '#' gets ignored and can be used for comments.
Leading and trailing white space gets trimmed around the URI pattern and also around the worker name.
The following definitions are all equivalent:
<div class="example"><pre>
# This is a white space example
/myapp=myworker
/myapp=myworker
/myapp = myworker
</pre></div>
</p>
</blockquote></td></tr></table>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="URI patterns"><strong>URI patterns</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<p>
Inside the URI pattern three special characters can be used, '*', '?' and '|'.
The character '*' is a wildchar that matches any number of arbitrary characters
in the URI, '?' matches exactly one character.
Each URI pattern has to start with the character '/', or with '*' or with '?',
optionally prefixed by any combination of the modifiers '!' and '-' (see next section).
<div class="example"><pre>
# Mapping the URI /myapp1 and everything under /myapp1/:
/myapp1=myworker-a
/myapp1/*=myworker-a
# Mapping all URI which end with a common suffix:
*.jsp=myworker
*.do=myworker
</pre></div>
Since the first case of mapping a certain location and everything inside
it is very common, the character '|' gives a handy shortcut:
<div class="example"><pre>
# Mapping the URI /myapp1 and everything under /myapp1/:
/myapp1|/*=myworker-a
</pre></div>
The pattern 'X|Y' is exactly equivalent to the two maps 'X' and 'XY'.
</p>
</blockquote></td></tr></table>
</blockquote></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Exclusion, Disabling and Priorities"><strong>Exclusion, Disabling and Priorities</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Exclusions and rule disabling"><strong>Exclusions and rule disabling</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<p>
Exclusion rules allows to define exclusions from URI rules, which would forward
requests to tomcat. If the exclusion rule matches, the request will not be forwarded.
This is usually used to serve static content by the web server.
A rule is an exclusion rule, if it is suffixed with '!':
<div class="example"><pre>
# Mapping the URI /myapp and everything under /myapp/:
/myapp|/*=myworker
# Exclude the subdirectory static:
!/myapp/static|/*=myworker
# Exclude some suffixes:
!*.html=myworker
</pre></div>
An exclusion rule overrides a normal mapping rule only, if the worker names in the
normal rule and in the exclusion rule are the same. Starting with version 1.2.26 of JK
you can apply an exclusion rule to any worker, by using the star character '*' as
the worker name in the exclusion rule.
More complex patterns in exclusion worker names are not allowed.
<div class="example"><pre>
# Mapping the webapps /myapp1 and /myapp2:
/myapp1|/*=myworker1
/myapp2|/*=myworker2
# Exclude the all subdirectories static for all workers:
!/*/static|/*=*
# Exclude some suffixes for all workers:
!*.html=*
</pre></div>
</p>
<p>
Rule disabling comes into play, if your web server merges rules from various sources,
and you want to disable any rule defined previously. Since the uriworkermap file gets
reloaded dynamically, you can use this to temporarily disable request forwarding:
A rule gets disabled, if it is suffixed with '-':
<div class="example"><pre>
# We are not in maintenance.
# The maintenance rule got defined somewhere else.
-/*=maintenance
</pre></div>
Exclusion rules can get disabled as well, then the rule starts with '-!'.
</p>
</blockquote></td></tr></table>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Mapping priorities"><strong>Mapping priorities</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<p>
The most restrictive URI pattern is applied first. More precisely the URI patterns are
sorted by the number of '/' characters in the pattern (highest number first), and
rules with equal numbers are sorted by their string length (longest first).
</p>
<p>
If both distinctions still do not suffice, then the defining source of the rule is considered.
Rules defined in uriworkermap.properties come first, before rules defined by JkMount (Apache)
and inside workers.properties using the mount attribute.
</p>
<p>
All disabled rules are ignored. Exclusion rules are applied after all normal rules
have been applied.
</p>
<p>
There is no defined behaviour, for the following configuration conflict:
using literally the same URI pattern in the same defining source but with
different worker targets.
</p>
</blockquote></td></tr></table>
</blockquote></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Rule extensions"><strong>Rule extensions</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<p>
Rule extensions were added in version 1.2.27 and are not available in earlier versions.
</p>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Syntax"><strong>Syntax</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<p>
Rule extensions are additional attributes, that can be attached to any rule.
They are added at the end of the rule, each extension separated by a semicolon:
<div class="example"><pre>
# This is an extension example,
# setting a reply_timeout of 1 minute
# only for this mapping.
/myapp=myworker;reply_timeout=60000
#
# This is an example using multiple extensions
/myapp=myloadbalancer;reply_timeout=60000;stopped=member1
</pre></div>
Attributes set via rule extensions always overwrite conflicting
configurations in the worker definition file.
</p>
</blockquote></td></tr></table>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Extension reply_timeout"><strong>Extension reply_timeout</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<p>
The extension <b class="code">reply_timeout</b> sets a reply timeout for a single mapping rule.
<div class="example"><pre>
# Setting a reply_timeout of 1 minute
# only for this mapping.
/myapp=myworker;reply_timeout=60000
</pre></div>
It overrides any <b class="code">reply_timeout</b> defined for the worker. The extension allows
to set a reasonable default reply timeout to the worker, and a more relaxed
reply timeout to URLs, which are known to start time intensive tasks.
For a general description of reply timeouts see the
<a href="../../generic_howto/timeouts.html#Reply Timeout">timeouts</a> documentation.
</p>
</blockquote></td></tr></table>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Extensions active/disabled/stopped"><strong>Extensions active/disabled/stopped</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<p>
The extensions <b class="code">active</b>, <b class="code">disabled</b>, and <b class="code">stopped</b>
can be used in a load balancer mapping rule to set selected members
of the load balancer into a special activation state.
<div class="example"><pre>
# Stop forwarding only for member1 of loadbalancer
/myapp=myloadbalancer;stopped=member1
</pre></div>
Multiple members must be separated by commas or white space:
<div class="example"><pre>
# Stop forwarding for member01 and member02 of loadbalancer
# Disable forwarding for member21 and member22 of loadbalancer
/myapp=myloadbalancer;stopped=member01,member02;disabled=member21,member22
</pre></div>
For the precise meaning of the activation states see the description of
<a href="../../reference/workers.html#Advanced Worker Directives">activation</a>.
</p>
</blockquote></td></tr></table>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Extension fail_on_status"><strong>Extension fail_on_status</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<p>
The extension <b class="code">fail_on_status</b> can be used in any rule:
<div class="example"><pre>
# Send 503 instead of 404 and 500,
# and if we get a 503 also set the worker to error
/myapp=myworker;fail_on_status=-404,-500,503
</pre></div>
Multiple status codes must be separated by commas.
For the precise meaning of the attribute see the description of
<a href="../../reference/workers.html#Advanced Worker Directives">fail_on_status</a>.
</p>
</blockquote></td></tr></table>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Extension use_server_errors"><strong>Extension use_server_errors</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<p>
The extension <b class="code">use_server_errors</b> allows to let the web server
send an error page, instead of the backend (e.g. Tomcat) error page.
This is useful, if one wants to send customized error pages, but those are
not part of all web applications. They can then be put onto the web server.
</p>
<p>
The value of <b class="code">use_server_errors</b> is a positive number.
Any request send to the backend, that returns with an http status
code bigger or equal to <b class="code">use_server_errors</b>, will
be answered to the client with the error page of the web server
for this status code.
<div class="example"><pre>
# Use web server error page for all errors
/myapp=myworker;use_server_errors=400
# Use web server error page only for technical errors
/myotherapp=myworker;use_server_errors=500
</pre></div>
</p>
</blockquote></td></tr></table>
</blockquote></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Virtual host integration"><strong>Virtual host integration</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="IIS"><strong>IIS</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<p>
When using IIS you can restrict individual rules to special virtual hosts
by prefixing the URI pattern with the virtual host information.
The rules is that the url must be prefixed with the host name.
<div class="example"><pre>
# Use www.foo.org as virtual host
/www.foo.org/myapp/*=myworker
# Use www.bar.org as virtual host
/www.bar.org/myapp/*=myworker
# Normal mapping
/mysecondapp/*=myworker
</pre></div>
</p>
<p>
Note that /mysecondapp/* will be mapped to all virtual hosts present.
In case one needs to prevent the mappings to some particular virtual host then
the exclusion rule must be used
<div class="example"><pre>
# Make sure the myapp is accessible by all virtual hosts
/myapp/*=myworker
# Disable mapping myapp for www.foo.org virtual host
!/www.foo.org/myapp/*=myworker
</pre></div>
</p>
</blockquote></td></tr></table>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Apache httpd"><strong>Apache httpd</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<p>
For Apache you can define individual uriworkermap files per virtual host.
The directive JkMountFile can be used in the main server and in each virtual host.
If a virtual host does not use JkMountfile, but JkMountCopy is set to 'On',
then it inherits the JkMountFile from the main server. If you want all vhost to inherit
mounts from the main server, you can set JkMountCopy to 'All' in the main server.
</p>
</blockquote></td></tr></table>
</blockquote></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Dynamic reloading"><strong>Dynamic reloading</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<p>
When a request is being processed, tomcat connectors check the file modification time
of the uriworkermap file. To keep the performance penalty low, this happens only,
if the last check happened at least n seconds ago.
</p>
<p>
For Apache you can configure the interval "n" using the directive JkMountFileReload,
for IIS you would use the attribute worker_mount_reload.
The default value is 60 seconds. A value of "0" turns off the reloading.
</p>
<p>
If the file changed, it gets reloaded completely. If there exist rules coming
from other sources than the uriworkermap file (e.g. the workers.properties mount
attribute or JkMount with Apache httpd), the new uriworkermap file gets dynamically
merged with these ones exactly like when you do a web server restart.
</p>
<p>
Until version 1.2.19 reloading behaved slightly differently: it continuously added
the full contents of the uriworkermap file to the rule mapping. The merging rules
were, that duplicated got eliminated and old rules could be disabled, by defining the
rule as disabled in the new file. Rules never got deleted.
</p>
</blockquote></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica.sanserif"><a name="Status worker integration"><strong>Status worker integration</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote>
<br>
<p>
The configuration view of the status worker also shows the various mapping rules.
After each worker's configuration, the rules are listed, that forward to this worker.
The list contains four columns:
<ul>
<li>
the name of the virtual server
</li>
<li>
the URI pattern, prefixed with '-' for a disabled pattern and '!' for an exclusion pattern
</li>
<li>
the type of the rule: Exact or Wildchar
</li>
<li>
and the source of the rule definition: 'worker definition' for the workers.properties file (mount attribute),
'JkMount' for Apache httpd JkMount and it's relatives and finally 'uriworkermap' for the uriworkermap file.
</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>
<b>Note: </b>The following restriction has been removed starting with version 1.2.26.
<br>
For Apache httpd, there is an important subtlety: the request going to the status worker
gets executed in the context of some server (main or virtual). The status worker will only show the
mapping rules, that are defined for this server (main or virtual).
<br>
Until version 1.2.25 the list contained three columns:
<ul>
<li>
the type of the rule: Exact or Wildchar, eventually prefixed with Disabled or Unmount (for exclusion rules)
</li>
<li>
the URI pattern
</li>
<li>
and the source of the rule definition: 'worker definition' for the workers.properties file (mount attribute),
'JkMount' for Apache httpd JkMount and it's relatives and finally 'uriworkermap' for the uriworkermap file.
</li>
</ul>
</p>
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