Subsonic as a general web server

[danobegood]

I've been trying to figure out the best way to have Apache2 and Subsonic co-exist on an Ubuntu platform and I think I've figured it out - don't use apache at all. After messing around with setting up apache to include subsonic as a virtual directory via proxy pass (and failing because I want apache to be on port 80 and subsonic to be available from the same machine and served out port 80), and also trying by setting up subsonic on a different ubuntu box than the apache server while using proxy pass, I've realized that I could just use the Subsonic Jetty server as my server. At this point I am only configuring it to use login, where you hit the site and your prompted to log in. Once logged in you get the Subsonic interface. What I plan to do is either move the directory Subsonic is serving from down one level and then locate the server web pages not requiring auth at the top level of the Jetty server. Or, re-write the index.html and index.jsp pages at the top level to include linkage to the other web pages I want to serve. In any case, what I've done so far is created a www folder in the /var/subsonic/jetty/1944/webapp path on the Ubuntu box and then placed an index.htm page inside it. It serves up the .htm page and the index.html pages separately, so this is a good indicator that what I am trying to do will work as expected. It seems that php doesn't work natively but I'm gonna see what I can do with that.

[Saiboogu]

Not to discourage hacking away at your PC (can be fun) but is there any reason you can't just leave Apache at port 80 and Subsonic at 4040? That's what I do on my media server, never had any issues between them.

[danobegood]

I want to have my domain name serve normal web pages and also serve Subsonic all from port 80. One driving factor is when I'm at work and I want to listen to my music, there's a firewall which locks out pretty much every port except port 80. So it would be one or the other, apache or subsonic which occupies port 80. Am I overlooking something which would allow both services to show up on port 80 from one box, or, is there another way I can serve both through a single IP on port 80?

[seanpkeown]

What about using Tomcat? It can host webpages and subsonic both on port 80 and it's a lot simpler to setup.

~ Sean K

[danobegood]

What about using Tomcat? It can host webpages and subsonic both on port 80 and it's a lot simpler to setup.

~ Sean K

Thanks Sean. I finally got around to doing this and this was exactly what I was looking for. Works perfectly. Cheers.