Mapping virtual hosts to webapplications/context

[toni]

Hello,

I have set up apache 1.3.31 with jboss-4.0.0 and tomcat 5.0.x successfully.

What I would like to do now is to map each virtual hosts to a webapplication.

The important point here is that I would like this do be done in a manner, so that typing in the domain solely will invoke the webapplication.

To illustrate a virtual example. Assume I have set up the following virtual host entries:

webcontext1.domainname.com
webapplication2.domainname.com
context3.domainname.com

Let's assume further that I have mapped them in the same order to the following webapplications, which ship with jboss 4.

/jmx-console
/web-console
/status

In fact I have managed to do something very similar at home. I can also invoke the webapplication BUT I have to append the context path.

So I can start the webapplication in the jmx-console.war by entering the following url into my browser: webcontext1.domainname.com/jmx-console

This works at home. The webapplication is invoked. This works because I have added a vitural host entry and added the "JkMount /jmx-console ajp13worker" line to the virtual host.

However, I would like that only calling the url "webcontext1.domainname.com" will invoke the webapplication. I do not want to append the context-path. Of course that makes a lot of sense.

Unfortunaltey I don't know how to do this and so I would appreciate any help on the subject.

Maybe somebody from the JBoss Group can help here? I think this is a setup which many users are interested in.

Thanks,
Toni

[cuoz]

Give apache mod_rewrite a look.

[toni]

Actually I solved the problem myself. So to share the knowlege with you here comes the solution.

The only thing you have to do is to add a virtual host and root context entry to jboss-web.xml. That's it.

Actually I did this also but their was (stupid me) a spelling mistake. Can't believe it but that was just the problem with the setup.

So, for the example below your jboss-web.xml for the jmx-console should contain:

<root-context>/</root-context>
<virtual-host>webcontext1.domainname.com</virtual-host>

The same holds true for the othe apps...

[icordoba]

Hi there,
can anybody confirm that this works with JBoss-4's Tomcat? I can make virtual host work in jboss-web.xml, but cannot use the <root-context> tag to position it at the root context of the virtual host.
Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Ignacio

[jimxchen]

Hi Toni,

Just read your message posted here. I am new to this technology and want to run a couple of domain names on my machines. I tried to have the two lines below:

<root-context>/name2</root-context>
<virtual-host>www.name2.com</virtual-host>



Could you please tell me whre is the "name2" directory that I should put the index.html?



Thank you very much.

Best regards,

--Jim