Thanks. But I did figure it out. I just needed to configure a new host
in my server.xml file with an appBase parameter that points to the
necessary directory.
The concern that my admin had was that he believed that the directory
pointed to by appBase had to have a WEB-INF directory. This does make
sense, but it appears not to be the case. The WEB-INF folder may
indeed be one level up as it is in the case of where the flex app is
vs the root of the webapp. Honestly, I'm not sure why we are able to
get away with this, but it does work.
Hank
On 11/1/06, Doug Lowder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sounds like this is beyond the scope of Tomcat configuration, since
> the hostname will be resolved by DNS at the client regardless of
> what webserver is actually running on that host.
>
> Assuming you have DNS issues already worked out though, you could
> easily just redirect to the desired url by using some JavaScript in
> a default HTML page on your host. Something like:
>
> var loc = window.location.toString();
> if (loc.indexOf("www.somedomain.com") != -1)
> window.location = "http://www.somedomain.com/flexapp1";;
> else if (loc.indexOf("ww2.somedomain.com") != -1)
> window.location = "http://www.somedomain.com/flexapp2";;
> else if (loc.indexOf("ww3.somedomain.com") != -1)
> window.location = "http://www.somedomain.com/flexapp3";;
>
>
> You'll have other issues even with this approach, though; domain
> names might be entered by the user in mixed case, or the IP address
> might be used instead of the hostname, and probably many others.
>
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "hank williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I have a three flex applications that live under one FDS web app.
> >
> > Imagine a directory structure as follows
> >
> > webapps
> > mainFDSAppName
> > flexapp1
> > flexapp2
> > flexapp3
> >
> >
> > I want to be able to say
> >
> > www.somedomain.com points to flexapp1
> > ww2.somedomain.com points to flexapp2
> > ww3.somedomain.com points to flexapp3
> >
> >
> > My system administrator is telling me that tomcat will not allow an
> > app to be at a deeper level than at the top of the webapps
> directory
> > without additional path information. This means that I could make
> an
> > app inside mainFDSAppName be www.somdomain.com but flexapp1 has to
> be
> > www.somedomain.com/flexapp1.
> >
> > I know that the www, ww1 and ww2 require additional CNAMEs. That is
> > not the issue. The issue is whether I can using some combination of
> > CNAME and other tomcat configurations to make the nice url's
> described
> > above. I also want to do something that will allow me to not do
> extra
> > work every time I want to build and/or deploy my app.
> >
> > Hank
> >
>
>
>
>
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