JAX-WS Reverse Proxy Wrong URL in WSDL (Apache & Nginx)

Environment:

• Payara Application Server (4.x, 5.x or Glassfish)
• Apache 2.4 Http Server as Reverse Proxy
• Reverse Proxy is HTTPS
• Application server is HTTP

• Update as 23.04.2021 - Nginx Reverse Proxy scenerio has been added

Symptoms:

• Wsdl Location Is: https://myapp.mydomain.com/MyApp/MyWebService?WSDL
• JAX-WS generated WSDL shows invalid URL:

<xsd:import namespace="http://myapp.ws.mydomain.com/"schemaLocation="http://myapp.mydomain.com:80/MyApp/MyWebService?xsd=1"/>

<soap:address location="http://myapp.mydomain.com:80/MyApp/MyWebService"/>

• Generated URL is not https which causes bad request error

Solution:

• Set virtual host server name with your domain name in payara (glassfish) admin console.
• Activate mod_substitute for apache.
• In apache virtual conf add Substitution for new url:

<Location "/mergenTechKampusWSIstemci">
    AddOutputFilterByType INFLATE;SUBSTITUTE;DEFLATE text/xml
    Substitute "s|http://myapp.mydomain.com:80/|https://myapp.mydomain.com/|ni"
</Location>

• Restart apache:

• For nginx
• Use substitions : https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/modules/substitutions/
• Edit site config

location /mergenTechKampusWSIstemci {

    subs_filter_types text/xml

    subs_filter    http://myapp.mydomain.com:80/ https://myapp.mydomain.com/

}

<xsd:import namespace="http://myapp.ws.mydomain.com/"schemaLocation="https://myapp.mydomain.com/MyApp/MyWebService?xsd=1"/>

<soap:address location="https://myapp.mydomain.com/MyApp/MyWebService"/>