Associate a Tomcat context to a domain name

pmorin · 06-20-2011, 04:14 AM

Hi !

I've got a server that runs on Ubuntu Server 11.04 amd64.

I've installed Tomcat 6 and Apache 2 servers.

On Tomcat, I installed Liferay portal as a WAR.
I can access to my portal with the following address :
http://localhost:8080/lportal

I would like to associate a domain name to the "/lportal" context so that I could access my webapp with the "http://my.domain.com" URL.
To make it short, I'd like to access the webapp on "http://localhost:8080/lportal" with "http://my.domain.com".

How can I do that please ?

Thank you !

Pit

gilead · 06-20-2011, 10:01 PM

I usually have more than web app on a server so I haven't had to do this for a while. IIRC, you can do it by removing or renaming the root web app (mv /usr/local/apache-tomcat/webapps/{ROOT,OLDROOT}) and setting up your app as ROOT instead of portal.

The other thing you'll need to do is set up DNS (or hosts files) so that other boxes can resolve your domain.

pmorin · 06-21-2011, 02:47 AM

I've did as you said and it works fine.

I also have found here that we should do what I want to by adding a Host in Tomcat's server.xml. But it don't seems to work when Tomcat is used via Apache.

Is anyone has something that can answer to my first question ?