Re: Apache and Tomcat virtual question

[Chong Yu Meng]

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 18:34 -0700, M E Fieu wrote:
>  Hi.. My unix host is installed with tomcat and apache and my tomcat
> is listen on 8080 port.  And
>  my java application is installed at this folder /usr/java/apps/ (example) with /ABC as
> context
>  path. Right now,when users access http://myserver.com/ABC or
> http://myserver.com:8080/ABC, it will
>  go to the java web application.  But I would like to create a virtual host so that
> whenever user
>  access http://ABC.com:8080 will go to Java application (of course we will set ABC.com to
> the
>  server IP in DNS). Where and how should i configure it? httpd.conf or server.xml ?
That would depend on how your hosting provider has setup Apache and
Tomcat. If Apache is configured as the front-end, then the virtual host
configuration goes into Apache. 

Also, it depends on whether all your virtual hosts need access to the
same web application, or they will be deploying different web
applications.

For your requirements, I think the easiest way to accomplish this is to
setup virtual hosting on Apache and force it to hand-off all requests to
Tomcat, but that means that you will have to block port 8080.

HTH
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