virtual hosting with JBoss 3.0 and Tomcat 4.0.2 (Catalina)

[peter_marklund]

Hi all!
I am trying to setup virtual hosting using JBoss 3.0 and Jakarta Tomcat 4.0.2.
More specifically, what we are trying to achieve is to have a domain, say
companyportals.com pointing to the web root and have other domains, say company1.com
and company2.com, pointing to subdirectories thereof (companyportals.com/company1,
companyportals.com/company2). I tried feeding Tomcat configuration xml
to the EmbeddedCatalinaServiceSX mbean in the jboss-service.xml config file,
something along the lines of:


&catalina.home;
1974



<!-- Note : To disable connection timeouts, set connectionTimeout value
to -1 -->

<!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 -->






























However, I was not able to affect the server behavior with this approach. When
browsing throught the source code of org.jboss.web.catalina.EmbeddedCatalinaServiceSX.java and
org.jboss.web.catalina.ConfigHandler.java I found this method

/** This method is invoked to import an arbitrary XML configuration tree.
Subclasses should override this method if they support such a configuration
capability. This implementation does nothing.
*/
public void setConfig(Element config)
{
this.extendedConfig = config;
}

It seems like the Catalina ConfigHandler currently does not support virtual hosting,
am I wrong? If I am right about this, is there an alternative approach that I
can use to achieve my objective? Would it be a workable solution to dispatch
requests based on their domain name in some master servlet or filter?
Any suggestions on this are most welcome!

Thanks!

[bpowell]

yeh, not supported.
there is a patch on sourceforge, or alternatively save yourself a lot of trouble and use jetty, and configure your v host in web-jetty.xml.
see the api for registerHost().

[erik777]

Has this patch been integrated with the main source? If so, as of what version?

I really don't want to switch to Jetty as I have a fully working application running (OpenStandards.net) with Tomcat. I simply need backward compatibility, or at least a way to use Tomcat's full functionality. I don't think JBoss should be stripping functionality from Tomcat.

In this case, if I run Tomcat standalone, it reads Server.xml and everything works great, except I can't access my EJBs, of course.