Setting up Virtual hosts without updating server.xml

[chfarooq]

Hi

I wanna add V-hosts to my application but I don't want to add Host tags in server.xml as explained in some posts. Is there anyother way to do it. I am running Jbos 5.1.0.

Best regards

Farooq Ahmad    

[wdfink]

Do you want to run the complete JBoss with a V-host binding?

Use 'run.sh -b <your host>' for this.

[schueffi]

Hi

in order to set up new virtual hosts in tomcat (embedded web server in jboss), you have two options:

- add the corresponding host entries into server.xml. This is persistent across server restarts, but it also requires a full server restart in order to load the changes in server.xml (i.e. there is no hot reload of this config file).

- add them dynamically to tomcat/jboss instantly without restart by using the tomcat host manager (do not mix this with the tomcat manager - this is a complete different application). The tomcat host manager is not installed by default in jboss - you can either download and extract it from the original tomcat distribution, or - for your convenience - download it from our servers:

http://www.softgarden.de/jboss/host-manager.war

Install this war into your deployment directory in jboss (and configure it to your needs: security, ...).

Then, you can add the hosts dynamically by invoking simple web requests like this:

http://jbosshost:port/host-manager/add?name=www.example-new-vhost.com

Beware, those dynamically added hosts are not persistent across jboss/tomcat restarts - so you have to add them to your server.xml file also.

Regards,

Stefan