Please help! Strange problem with HTTPD.Conf and OC4J (I think)

Question

Hi,
We have been trying to configure the 10g "infrastructure" Apache server/instance to work with our own authentication module, and as part of this, we need to configure a directory alias containing some of our JSPs. To do this, the only thing that we did was that we took the standard HTTPD.CONF file that got installed with the 10g AS installation, and added a small section at the end.
However, we are finding that if our addition to the HTTPD.CONF is included, instead of the JSPs in our aliased directory being processed, Apache seems to be just serving the JSPs as text pages :(..
If we remove the section at the end of the HTTPD.CONF, and point a browser to the unaliased path, the JSPs get processed correctly.
I was wondering if anyone here might take a look at our HTTPD.CONF below, and tell me if you can see something there that might be causing this behavior? The section that we added is at the very end. We think that the problem might be something like the "order" of the directives, etc. in the HTTPD.CONF file may be such that the alias is taking priority ahead of the OC4J, or something like that.
Thanks in advance, and apologies for the long message.
Jim
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ServerType standalone
ServerRoot "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache"
PidFile /orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/logs/httpd.pid
ScoreBoardFile /orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/logs/httpd.scoreboard
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 20
StartServers 5
MaxClients 150
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
LoadModule onsint_module libexec/mod_onsint.so
LoadModule mmap_static_module libexec/mod_mmap_static.so
LoadModule vhost_alias_module libexec/mod_vhost_alias.so
LoadModule env_module libexec/mod_env.so
LoadModule define_module libexec/mod_define.so
LoadModule config_log_module libexec/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule agent_log_module libexec/mod_log_agent.so
LoadModule referer_log_module libexec/mod_log_referer.so
LoadModule mime_magic_module libexec/mod_mime_magic.so
LoadModule mime_module libexec/mod_mime.so
LoadModule negotiation_module libexec/mod_negotiation.so
LoadModule status_module libexec/mod_status.so
LoadModule info_module libexec/mod_info.so
LoadModule includes_module libexec/mod_include.so
LoadModule autoindex_module libexec/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule dir_module libexec/mod_dir.so
LoadModule cgi_module libexec/mod_cgi.so
LoadModule asis_module libexec/mod_asis.so
LoadModule imap_module libexec/mod_imap.so
LoadModule action_module libexec/mod_actions.so
LoadModule speling_module libexec/mod_speling.so
LoadModule userdir_module libexec/mod_userdir.so
LoadModule alias_module libexec/mod_alias.so
LoadModule access_module libexec/mod_access.so
LoadModule auth_module libexec/mod_auth.so
LoadModule anon_auth_module libexec/mod_auth_anon.so
LoadModule dbm_auth_module libexec/mod_auth_dbm.so
LoadModule digest_module libexec/mod_digest.so
LoadModule proxy_module libexec/libproxy.so
LoadModule cern_meta_module libexec/mod_cern_meta.so
LoadModule expires_module libexec/mod_expires.so
LoadModule headers_module libexec/mod_headers.so
LoadModule usertrack_module libexec/mod_usertrack.so
LoadModule unique_id_module libexec/mod_unique_id.so
LoadModule setenvif_module libexec/mod_setenvif.so
LoadModule perl_module libexec/libperl.so
LoadModule fastcgi_module libexec/mod_fastcgi.so
<IfDefine SSL>
LoadModule ossl_module libexec/mod_ossl.so
</IfDefine>
LoadModule wchandshake_module libexec/mod_wchandshake.so
ExtendedStatus On
Port 7777
Listen 7777
User oracle
Group dba
ServerAdmin [email protected]
ServerName ge1ssd04.test.com
DocumentRoot "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/htdocs"
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/htdocs">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir public_html
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>
AccessFileName .htaccess
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>
UseCanonicalName On
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
TypesConfig /orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/conf/mime.types
AddEncoding x-compress Z
AddEncoding x-gzip gz tgz
AddLanguage ar .ar
AddLanguage da .dk .da
AddLanguage nl .nl
AddLanguage en .en
AddLanguage et .ee
AddLanguage fi .fi
AddLanguage fr .fr
AddLanguage de .de
AddLanguage el .el
AddLanguage es .es_ES .es
AddLanguage he .he .iw
AddLanguage hu .hu
AddCharset ISO-8859-8 .iso8859-8
AddLanguage it .it
AddLanguage ja .ja
AddCharset ISO-2022-JP .jis
AddLanguage ko .ko
AddLanguage kr .kr
AddCharset ISO-2022-KR .iso-kr
AddLanguage nn .nn
AddLanguage no .no
AddLanguage pl .po
AddCharset ISO-8859-2 .iso-pl
AddLanguage pt .pt
AddLanguage pt-br .pt_BR .pt-br
AddLanguage ltz .lu
AddLanguage ca .ca
AddLanguage sk .sk
AddLanguage sv .sv
AddLanguage th .th
AddLanguage tr .tr
AddLanguage cz .cz .cs
AddLanguage ro .ro
AddLanguage ru .ru
AddLanguage zh-cn .zh_CN
AddLanguage zh-tw .zh_TW
AddCharset Big5 .Big5 .big5
AddCharset WINDOWS-1251 .cp-1251
AddCharset CP866 .cp866
AddCharset ISO-8859-5 .iso-ru
AddCharset KOI8-R .koi8-r
AddCharset UCS-2 .ucs2
AddCharset UCS-4 .ucs4
AddCharset UTF-8 .utf8
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
LanguagePriority ar en da nl et fi fr de el it ja ko kr no pl pt pt-br ro ru ltz ca es sk sv th tr zh-cn zh-tw zh-cn
</IfModule>
AddType application/x-tar .tgz
</IfModule>
DefaultType text/plain
<IfModule mod_mime_magic.c>
MIMEMagicFile /orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/conf/magic
</IfModule>
HostnameLookups Off
ErrorLog "|/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/bin/rotatelogs /orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/logs/error_log 43200"
LogLevel warn
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
CustomLog "|/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/bin/rotatelogs /orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/logs/access_log 43200" common
ServerSignature On
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
Alias /icons/ "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/icons/"
Alias /jservdocs/ "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Jserv/docs/"
Alias /javacachedocs/ "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/javacache/javadoc/"
<IfModule mod_perl.c>
Alias /perl/ "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/cgi-bin/"
</IfModule>
<Directory "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/icons">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_autoindex.c>
IndexOptions FancyIndexing
AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/compressed.gif) x-compress x-gzip
AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif) text/*
AddIconByType (IMG,/icons/image2.gif) image/*
AddIconByType (SND,/icons/sound2.gif) audio/*
AddIconByType (VID,/icons/movie.gif) video/*
AddIcon /icons/binary.gif .bin .exe
AddIcon /icons/binhex.gif .hqx
AddIcon /icons/tar.gif .tar
AddIcon /icons/world2.gif .wrl .wrl.gz .vrml .vrm .iv
AddIcon /icons/compressed.gif .Z .z .tgz .gz .zip
AddIcon /icons/a.gif .ps .ai .eps
AddIcon /icons/layout.gif .html .shtml .htm .pdf
AddIcon /icons/text.gif .txt
AddIcon /icons/c.gif .c
AddIcon /icons/p.gif .pl .py
AddIcon /icons/f.gif .for
AddIcon /icons/dvi.gif .dvi
AddIcon /icons/uuencoded.gif .uu
AddIcon /icons/script.gif .conf .sh .shar .csh .ksh .tcl
AddIcon /icons/tex.gif .tex
AddIcon /icons/bomb.gif core
AddIcon /icons/back.gif ..
AddIcon /icons/hand.right.gif README
AddIcon /icons/folder.gif ^^DIRECTORY^^
AddIcon /icons/blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^
ReadmeName README
HeaderName HEADER
IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS CVS *,v *,t
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive
BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0b2;" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "RealPlayer 4\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "Java/1\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "JDK/1\.0" force-response-1.0
</IfModule>
<Location /server-status>
SetHandler server-status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from localhost ge1ssd04.test.com ge1ssd04
</Location>
SetEnv PERL5LIB "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/perl/lib/5.6.1:/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.1"
<IfModule mod_perl.c>
PerlModule Apache
PerlModule Apache::Registry
<Location /perl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Registry
AddHandler perl-script .pl
Options +ExecCGI
PerlSendHeader On
</Location>
</IfModule>
<DirectoryMatch /WEB-INF/>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</DirectoryMatch>
<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
Alias /fastcgi/ "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/fastcgi/"
ScriptAlias /fcgi-bin/ "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/fcgi-bin/"
<Directory "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/fcgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
SetHandler fastcgi-script
<IfModule mod_ossl.c>
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</IfModule>
</Directory>
</IfModule>
PassEnv ORACLE_HOME
PassEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH
PassEnv NLS_LANG
PassEnv TNS_ADMIN
<IfModule mod_oprocmgr.c>
<Location /oprocmgr-service>
SetHandler oprocmgr-service
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from localhost ge1ssd04.test.com ge1ssd04
</Location>
<Location /oprocmgr-status>
SetHandler oprocmgr-status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from localhost ge1ssd04.test.com ge1ssd04
</Location>
</IfModule>
include "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/conf/mod_oc4j.conf"
include "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/conf/dms.conf"
LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/mod_rewrite.so
include "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/conf/ssl.conf"
include "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/conf/mod_osso.conf"
include "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/Apache/Apache/conf/oracle_apache.conf"
# MY ADDITIONS TO HTTPD.CONF GO BELOW HERE....
LoadModule my_auth_module /opt/myagent/apache/lib/libmy_apache_agent_mod_ssl.so
AddModule my_apache_mod.c
<IfModule my_apache_mod.c>
     MYAgentRoot /opt/myagent/apache
</IfModule>
<IfModule my_apache_mod.c>
<Location />
AuthType Basic
Require valid-user
AuthName MYAUTH
</Location>
</IfModule>
<IfModule my_apache_mod.c>
Alias /mydir/ "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/j2ee/OC4J_SECURITY/applications/sso/web/jsp/myagentdir/"
<Directory "/orad59/10gAS/infrastructure/j2ee/OC4J_SECURITY/applications/sso/web/jsp/myagentdir/">
AuthType Basic
Require valid-user
AuthName MYAUTH
</Directory>
</IfModule>

Answer 1

Hi,
I wanted to post what we found on this.
As indicated in my original msg, we had an Alias directory in the httpd.conf. However, after thinking about the problem a bit, I think that the Alias was not the right thing to do.
The Alias tells Apache to map a URL fragment to a FILESYSTEM location. Well, obviously, Apache only SERVES pages... it doesn't process JSPs.
We switched to using a Redirect directive instead of the Alias, and things worked a little better, but we've run into a bit of a problem with "Redirect looping", but that's a different story :)...
Jim