Virtual Hosting

bstuart · 06-18-2005, 04:39 PM

I am working on setting up a new web server.
Currently on the old one, I host two applications, one listens on port 80 with TomCat 5.0 and the other listens on 8080 with Tomcat 5.5.

Currently I use: www . ourserver . com / app1 and www . ourserver . com / app2.

I want to be able to call app1 . ourserver . com and app2 . ourserver . com and have the proper application served. Similarly, I want to be able to ask for www . app1 . com to serve the application in the context app1 and when a request comes in for www . app2 . com, the application in context app2 is served. Thus the web root is the root of the context... so www . app1 . com / index . jsp points at the file: www . ourserver . com / app1 / index . jsp

Currently on the new server running SUSE 9.1 I have Tomcat 5.5 ready for the applications. Can anyone point me to a good place to start, do I need more software? Apache? The JK connector?

The more info the better becasue I am a newbie...

RandomLinuxNewb · 06-19-2005, 11:26 AM

You need to setup a virtual host in apache, this is from my web config.

Code:

<VirtualHost *>
        ServerName      pics.w00ttech.com
        DocumentRoot    /www/w00ttech/webroot/pics
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
        ServerName      mail.w00ttech.com
        DocumentRoot    /www/w00ttech/squirrelmail
</VirtualHost>

If you want to be able to access the apps from www.app1.com or www.app2.com you are going to have to either own those domains or setup a dns server on your localnetwork that will resolve the address to the correct IP.