Virtual Hosts broken in JBoss 5?

[javidjamae]

I was trying to get virtual hosts to work in JBoss 5 Beta 4, but it doesn't seem to work.

I have this host defined under my engine block in my server.xml:

 <Host name="somehostname.com" autoDeploy="false"
 deployOnStartup="false" deployXML="false">
 <Alias>www.somehostname.com</Alias>
 <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
 prefix="somehostname-com-" suffix=".log"
 pattern="common" directory="${jboss.server.home.dir}/log"/>
 </Host>

I have this in my hosts file:

127.0.0.1 somehostname.com

I have the "useIPVHosts" attribute set to true on my connector as follows:

 <!-- A HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8080 -->
 <Connector useIPVHosts="true" protocol="HTTP/1.1" port="8080" address="${jboss.bind.address}"
 connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443" />

and I have the following in my jboss-web.xml file:

<jboss-web>
 <virtual-host>somehostname.com</virtual-host>
</jboss-web>

The application seems to deploy, but I cannot access it using:

http://somehostname.com:8080/hello/sayhello

I verified that the same application deploys and works without a virtual host definition.

I ran across this JIRA issue (http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-3918). I couldn't make sense of Remy Maucherat's comment:

This seems to work for me with the current AS 5. However, there's a change in behavior with the introduction of the mapVirtualHosts method that forces declaration of the vhosts in server.xml manually. Previously, vhosts mentioned in WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml would be automatically created.

I'm not sure what he means by defining the vhost in the server.xml manually.

I have three questions:
1) Is the virtual hosts feature still broken in JBoss 5?
2) Is there a work around?
3) Is the useIPVHosts attribute necessary on the connector?

[javidjamae]

I just tried this again on JBoss 5 CR1 and it still doesn't seem to work.

Could somebody confirm if this is related to: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-3918

Or am I just doing something wrong?

[jfclere]

Have you declared your virtual host in server.xml

[jaikiran]

FYI - I do have it working on JBoss-5 CR1.

Javid,

When you say, its not working, i guess you get a 404 error or something similar in the browser. Do the logs show something like:

2008-09-08 13:22:17,151 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.TomcatDeployment] (main) Initialized: {WebApplication: /D:/jboss-5.0.0.CR1/server/jaikiran/deploy/MyApp.war/, URL: vfsfile:/D:/jboss-5.0.0.CR1/server/jaikiran/deploy/MyApp.war/, classLoader: BaseClassLoader@18f1ef8{vfsfile:/D:/jboss-5.0.0.CR1/server/jaikiran/deploy/MyApp.war/}:26156792} jboss.web:j2eeType=WebModule,name=//myhost-jboss-5.com/MyApp,J2EEApplication=none,J2EEServer=none

This log will confirm that the virtual host is being honoured.


Here's my server.xml entry:

<Host name="myhost-jboss-5.com" autoDeploy="false"
 deployOnStartup="false" deployXML="false">
 <Alias>www.myhost-jboss-5.com</Alias>
 <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
 prefix="myhost-com-" suffix=".log"
 pattern="common" directory="${jboss.server.home.dir}/log"/>
 </Host>

jboss-web.xml:

<jboss-web>
 <virtual-host>myhost-jboss-5.com</virtual-host>
</jboss-web>

The only difference between my setup and your's is the hosts file. I have this:

127.0.0.1 localhost

10.77.222.50 myhost-jboss-5.com

I could not get it working with

127.0.0.1 myhost-jboss-5.com

So i decided to use the system IP to map the virtual host.

One other thing, if you are having proxies setup, is to add myhost-jboss-5.com in firefox to bypass proxy.

Finally, this is the URL which is used to access the application http://myhost-jboss-5.com:8080/MyApp/MyServlet

[javidjamae]

Thanks for the suggestion.

I tried this out on CR1 and CR2 but I still can't get it to work. I set up the hosts file to point to my IP address:

127.0.0.1 localhost
172.16.64.45 somehostname.com

And, I verified that the virtual host is deployed:

2008-09-23 19:44:49,015 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.TomcatDepl
oyment] (main) Initialized: {WebApplication: /C:/jboss-5.0.0.CR1/server/web/tmp/
deploy/hello21878-exp.war/, URL: file:/C:/jboss-5.0.0.CR1/server/web/tmp/deploy/
hello21878-exp.war/, classLoader: BaseClassLoader@100c858{vfszip:/C:/jboss-5.0.0
.CR1/server/web/deploy/hello.war}:16828504} jboss.web:j2eeType=WebModule,name=//
somehostname.com/hello,J2EEApplication=none,J2EEServer=none

The interesting thing is that I'm not getting a 404 from Tomcat, but rather a "Failed to Connect" from Firefox. I can access a non-virtual host application fine using "localhost:8080" so I know I don't have a problem connecting to Tomcat on my machine. Any ideas?

[jaikiran]

"javidjamae" wrote:

The interesting thing is that I'm not getting a 404 from Tomcat, but rather a "Failed to Connect" from Firefox.

I guess its a setting in Firefox which is creating this issue. As i mentioned in my earlier reply:

"javidjamae" wrote:

One other thing, if you are having proxies setup, is to add myhost-jboss-5.com in firefox to bypass proxy.