Setting up Virtual Host on Tomcat

[smileyq]

For those of you that have had trouble setting up Virtual Host on JBoss 3.2.1 Tomcat 4.1.24 bundle below is a quick and easy example to use.

Lets say you have a domain name www.xyz.com and you want to setup a virtual host entry for this domain name. The first thing you need to do is create a jboss-web.xml file and specify at least the settings below in that file.

Example jboss-web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE jboss-web>

<jboss-web>
<context-root>/</context-root>
<virtual-host>www.xyz.com</virtual-host>
</jboss-web>

Place this file inside the WEB-INF directory of your web application.

Next you need to configure your tomcat and make sure you have a coresponding host entry inside your /server/default/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat.sar/META-INF/jboss-serivice.xml.
An example is below

Example jboss-service.xml







<!-- Access logger -->


<!-- Default context parameters -->
<DefaultContext cookies = "true" crossContext = "true" overrid
e = "true" />


<!-- Contman.athlonsports.com -->





With these files editing create your application and deploy it. The only other steps you may need to make are adding a entry into your system hosts file. I hope this helps all of those that have been having problems trying to create virtual host.

[ucftcys]

this is very helpful...thanks for your contribution~~

[randahl]

Yep this was great information - maybe JBoss.org should have a forum called popular posts or how-to posts, and this one should be added...

It is sometimes hard to find the well-written informative how-to tips because of the huge number of all kinds of posts.

Randahl