Virtual Hosts - asked before, got no response

[binario]

Hi all,

I asked before but got no response to this question. I am trying to run multiple virtual hosts to my application one for each category, eg:

toys.mysite.com
books.mysite.com
etc...

I want these virtual hosts to map to a jsp for each one that correspond to:

www.mysite.com/toys
www.mysite.com/books
etc.

Is this possible?
Please can someone help me on this
thanks very much,
Binario

[starksm64]

http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=VirtualHosts

[binario]

Thanks for the reply Scott,
but that doesn't really answer the question. I'm a long time user of jboss and I have deployed virtual hosting before where each virtual host points to a different war file. I have noted that as of 3.2.4 you can deploy one war to mulitple virtual hosts via the jboss-web.xml file, however what I want to know is - can you point each of these virtual hosts to a different jsp. Perhaps this can be done with the alias in tomcat, but I'm not sure. So can you for example have

toys.mysite.com ---> goes to ---> www.mysite.com/toys.jsp

This is not clear from the wiki which I quote below:


"a single war can be deployed to mulitple virtual hosts through the jboss-web.xml virtual-host element. To make the jmx-console available on localhost, vhost1 and vhost2, edit the jmx-console.war/WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml

<jboss-web>
<!-- Uncomment the security-domain to enable security. You will
need to edit the htmladaptor login configuration to setup the
login modules used to authentication users.
<security-domain>java:/jaas/jmx-console</security-domain>
-->
<virtual-host>localhost</virtual-host>
<virtual-host>vhost1.mydot.com</virtual-host>
<virtual-host>vhost2-alias</virtual-host>
</jboss-web>"


Really appreciate any help you can give me,
kind regards,
Binario

[anil.saldhana]

I have added this to the FAQ at the beginning of this forum section

[binario]

Thanks Anil,
but really, that doesn't answer this question. I am not just asking about virtual hosts. I have used virtual hosts on jboss before, I have seen the wiki page before, I am asking a very specific virtual hosts question. Posting it on the faq looks as if this thread has been closed off with a link to the wiki as the answer. Unfortunately that has not answered the question.

thanks anyway though,
Binario

[starksm64]

This is url rewriting, not virtual hosting and is not supported by configuration alone. You need virtual hosting with a valve/filter.

[binario]

First of all Scott - thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction! I would be forever indebted if you could possibly explain what you mean when you say "is not supported by configuration alone. You need virtual hosting with a valve/filter"

Do you mean that it's not possible by using jboss-web.xml and editing the tomcat server.xml file?

I know that you can add elements to the tomcat server.xml element. Is this what you mean? Do you have any idea of what sort of a valve this would be? Any advice would be very much appreciated.

thanks,
Brian

[maheshkudva]

Hi Binario

I am also having the same problem. Can you let me know if you have any answers to this. In my case, the web apps are WAR files and I want to have the similar action.

http://test.com/library (Works perfectly)

http://library.test.com (never worked)

My DNS points to the correct IP where JBoss 4.0 is hosted.

I understand that I need to bind the WAR file to the virtual host and domain library.test.com.


But the question is how.

My server.xml:

<Host name="library"
 autoDeploy="false" deployOnStartup="false" deployXML="false">
<Alias>library.robosoft.co.in</Alias>
</Host>

My WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml:

<virtual-host>library.test.com</virtual-host>
<context-root>/library</context-root>

This is one set. I need to deploy at least 5 such WAR files.


Any ideas welcome.

Regards
Mahesh S Kudva

[maheshkudva]

Thanks to all.

This setup has been tested on Apache2+JBoss+mod_jk-1.2.14_for MacOSX. And am sure it will work on other platforms as well. This setup also handles Apache related webapps..

Make the required entries in the DNS

webapp.war: Extract the war file using zip and rename the folder
with .war extension. Please put it in your deployment folder.

mod-jk.so: Obtain the modjk.so library file from www.apache.org and place then in the modules folder.

Apache-Virtual Host config
----------------------

NameVirtualHost *.*.*.*:80

<VirtualHost *.*.*.*:80>
 ServerName webapp.robosoft.co.in
 ServerAlias www.webapp.robosoft.co.in
 ServerAdmin root@localhost
 DocumentRoot /Volumes/Extra/jboss/server/default/deploy/webapp.war
 JkMount /* loadbalancer
 DirectoryIndex index.html index.jsp
 ErrorLog logs/webapp-error_log
 CustomLog logs/webapp-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
mod-jk.conf
================

LoadModule jk_module /opt/apache2/modules/mod_jk.so

JkWorkersFile /opt/apache2/conf/workers.properties
JkLogFile /opt/apache2/logs/mod_jk.log
JkLogLevel info
JkLogStampFormat "[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y]"
JkOptions +ForwardKeySize +ForwardURICompat -ForwardDirectories
JkRequestLogFormat "%w %V %T"
JkMount /webapp.domain.com/*.jsp loadbalancer
JkMountFile /opt/apache2/conf/uriworkermap.properties
JkShmFile /opt/apache2/logs/jk.shm
<Location /jkstatus/>
 JkMount status
 Allow from all
</Location>

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Server.xml
---------

<Host name="webapp.domain.com" debug="0" appBase="deploy"
unpackWARs="true">
 <Alias>www.webapp.domain.com</Alias>
 <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
 directory="logs" prefix="webapp_log1." suffix=".log"
timestamp="true"/>
 <Context path=""
docBase="${jboss.server.home.dir}/deploy/webapp.war" debug="0"
reloadable="true"/>
 </Host>

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
uriworkermap.properties
================

/jmx-console=loadbalancer
/jmx-console/*=loadbalancer
/web-console=loadbalancer
/web-console/*=loadbalancer
/webapp.domain.com/*.jsp

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
workers.properties
================

worker.list=loadbalancer,status

worker.webapp.port=8009
worker.webapp.host=webapp.domain.com
worker.webapp.type=ajp13
worker.webapp.lbfactor=1
worker.webapp.cachesize=10

worker.loadbalancer.type=lb
worker.loadbalancer.balance_workers=library
worker.loadbalancer.sticky_session=1
worker.loadbalancer.local_worker_only=1
worker.list=loadbalancer

worker.status.type=status

Regards & Thanks
================
Mahesh S Kudva
Network Analyst
Robosoft Technologies