Sjsws7, lbplugin and forward-ip

Question

Hi,
I'm fronting my Glassfish 2.1 with the Sun Webserver7. The setup as a whole works smooth but I have a problem who bothers me:
When accesing the Client IP within' my j2ee code like this:
request.getRemoteAddr()the IP I get always is 127.0.0.1.
I'm sure that is has something to do with the sun webserver7, since "direct glassfish" requests deliver the correct ip.
In the docs I came along the forward-ip directive:
[forward-ip|http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-4841/aebjo?a=view]
which looked perfect for my needs, but having it declared anywhere I could think of in my obj.conf, it did not work at all.
here's my obj.conf:
<Object name="default">
Nametrans fn="name-trans-passthrough" name="lbplugin" config-file="/usr/local/sun/webserver7/https-gaia.scientists/config/loadbalancer.xml"
AuthTrans fn="match-browser" browser="*MSIE*" ssl-unclean-shutdown="true"
NameTrans fn="ntrans-j2ee" name="j2e
</Object>e"
NameTrans fn="pfx2dir" from="/mc-icons" dir="/usr/local/sun/webserver7/lib/icons" name="es-internal"
PathCheck fn="uri-clean"
PathCheck fn="find-pathinfo"
PathCheck fn="find-index-j2ee"
PathCheck fn="find-index" index-names="index.html,home.html,index.jsp"
ObjectType fn="forward-ip" hdr="Client-ip"
ObjectType fn="type-j2ee"
ObjectType fn="type-by-extension"
ObjectType fn="force-type" type="text/plain"
Service method="(GET|HEAD)" type="magnus-internal/directory" fn="index-common"
Service method="(GET|HEAD|POST)" type="*~magnus-internal/*" fn="send-file"
Service method="TRACE" fn="service-trace"
Error fn="error-j2ee"
AddLog fn="flex-log"
</Object>
<Object name="j2ee">
Service fn="service-j2ee" method="*"
ObjectType fn="forward-ip" hdr="Client-ip"
</Object>
<Object name="es-internal">
PathCheck fn="check-acl" acl="es-internal"
</Object>
<Object name="cgi">
ObjectType fn="force-type" type="magnus-internal/cgi"
Service fn="send-cgi"
</Object>
<Object name="send-precompressed">
PathCheck fn="find-compressed"
</Object>
<Object name="compress-on-demand">
Output fn="insert-filter" filter="http-compression"
</Object>
<Object name="lbplugin">
ObjectType fn="forward-ip" hdr="Client-ip"
ObjectType fn="force-type" type="magnus-internal/lbplugin"
PathCheck fn="deny-existence" path="*/WEB-INF/*"
Service type="magnus-internal/lbplugin" fn="service-passthrough"
Error reason="Bad Gateway" fn="send-error" uri="/badgateway.html"
</Object> I'd appreciate any help.
Thanks in advance,
Tom

Answer 1

Is this the only *obj.conf file in config directory?
Can you see error logs in finest mode to see if forward-ip is getting called or not?
Have you tried forward-ip with in built reverse proxy functionality of Web Server 7.0 to see if it works or not?
See also
[http://blogs.sun.com/amit/entry/setting_up_a_reverse_proxy |http://blogs.sun.com/amit/entry/setting_up_a_reverse_proxy ]
Edited by: mv on Nov 3, 2008 4:48 PM