On Fri, September 24, 2004 10:44, Stephan Paukner said:
We are using a (J2EE-based) CMS, where clients have their sites as
subdirectories under .../webapps, i.e. a single webapp means a single
virtual host.
On our older server (Suse 8.0) they were deployed using mod_webapp, the
Apache VirtualHosts each had a line like 'WebAppDeploy abc tomcat /'
(tomcat being the name of the WebAppConnection).
Now, on Suse 9.0 this doesn't work anymore, as the mod_webapp throws an
exception, saying that the context root must match the name of the
webapp, i.e. is expecting lines like 'WebAppDeploy abc tomcat /abc'.
I already spent so many hours finding out how to deploy these webapps for
the virtual hosts via /, and not via /abc. I found examples using
Host-entries in server.xml combined with lines 'WebAppDeploy . tomcat
/' in the VirtualHosts, but with about 10 webapps being configured that
way I got more than 400 java-processes after restarting Apache, which is
not usable.
I somewhere read at jakarta.apache.org that mod_webapp is obsolete, so I
tried with mod_jk, as this seems to be the recommended way with Suse 9.0
anyway (already activated by default). But still, I somehow only get the
webapps being deployed as subdirectories (www.xyz.com/abc/), and not as
www.xyz.com/ only. I tried with different JkMount/Alias/DocumentRoot
directives, but I didn't get it right.
So, how do I do it? Any hints would be greatly appreciated!
I finally found out by myself: Host-entries in server.xml are really needed for
this. The examples at
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-3.3-doc/mod_jk-howto.html show it the right
way. I included them below the localhost entry, i.e. into the following section of
server.xml:
Service name=Tomcat-Standalone
...
Host name=localhost ...
...
/Host
Host name=www.domain.com
Context path= docBase=/path/to/webapps/client1 debug=0/
Context path=/cmsapp docBase=/path/to/webapps/cmsapp debug=0/
/Host
/Service
The corresponding VirtualHost needs an 'Alias /cmsapp /path/to/webapps/cmsapp' entry
in addition to also deploy it.
Side note: I also found out that server.xml (and probably all XML-files) doesn't
accept umlauts, even if they are in comments, as the XML-parser will throw an
exception, i.e. Tomcat cannot be launched.
Regards
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