Port Redirect and Apache Virtual Server Directive

[AlStl]

I have been researching this for last few weeks and now hit a brick wall. May be someone here can shed some light on this. I want to know if this is even possible?

Background:
I have apache as http and tomcat as servlet container using mod_jk. They are running a java app on Solaris 10.

Issue Description:
As we all know http request default listening port is 80. I wanted to create a application URL (runs inside company intranet) that will not have port information as it does today:

http://fakename.xx.com:10020/app_xxx

I want URL to simply have

http://fakename.xx.com/

To do this I thought following needs to be done:

a) A port redirect i.e. 80 to something that will be used in virtual server directive of apache httpd.conf file
b) Use virtual server directive in apache httpd.conf file ex:

LISTEN 80
NameVirtualHost *:80
<Virtual Host *:80>
ServerName fakename.xx.com
RewriteEnginer on
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$/app_xxx/$1 [L,PT]
JKMount /* tomcatinstancename
</Virtual Host>

Well, due to security reason a port 80 re-direct will not be allowed. So reference of port 80 in above code is not an option.

Do I have to any other option or method to accomplish the above?

 

[IRudebwoy]

Try this, as documented here.

ProxyPass /app ajp://backend.example.com:8009/app

Good luck...