Deploying new virtual hosts
Hi- I'd suggest searching the Internet for web hosting control panel. You'll likely need to sort through the features provided and select according to the requirements of your project. As you might imagine, support is included, sometimes optionally, for a wide range of services including Tomcat. -Terence M. Bandoian Can you recommend a commercial hosting application that would manage tomcat and meet my needs? George Sexton MH Software, Inc. http://www.mhsoftware.com/ Voice: 303 438 9585 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Deploying new virtual hosts
Can you recommend a commercial hosting application that would manage tomcat and meet my needs? George Sexton MH Software, Inc. http://www.mhsoftware.com/ Voice: 303 438 9585 -Original Message- From: Terence M. Bandoian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 2:08 PM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Deploying new virtual hosts Hi- For that many virtual domains, you may want to investigate using a commercial hosting application that allows you to manage the server from a web interface. They are available for Linux and Windows and may be worth the cost in time saved. -Terence M. Bandoian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deploying new virtual hosts
George Sexton wrote: I'm trying to sort out a way I can automate deploying new virtual hosts on my Tomcat server. Right now I'm running about 70 virtual hosts. Each virtual host has only one ROOT context. I'm planning on scaling up to at least 200 virtual hosts before I need to get a second machine. The second machine will probably be more powerful, and I'll want to scale it into the region of something like 1000 virtual hosts. I've looked through the documentation on the Tomcat site and don't think I'm seeing what I need. Ideally I would like something that would be scriptable that would let me automatically deploy the virtual hosts. If I can't get that, some application that would let me create a new virtual host without stopping and re-starting tomcat would be nice. I'm thinking in the near future I will need to deploy several new virtual hosts per day. If I can't do it automatically, I'd at least like one tool that works that could be used to create a virtual host correctly. Have you tried embeded tomcat? It's very easy to set up, and add new hosts, contexts, etc. on the fly. So it would be possible with very little effort to create small app to create/delete any host inside such tomcat. Sample code: embedded = new Embedded(); embedded.setCatalinaHome(catalinaHome.getAbsolutePath()); Engine engine = embedded.createEngine(); engine.setDefaultHost(localhost); Host host = embedded.createHost(localhost, appBase.getAbsolutePath()); engine.addChild(host); Context ctx = embedded.createContext(/ctx, docBase.getAbsolutePath()); host.addChild(ctx); embedded.addEngine(engine); Connector connector = embedded.createConnector((InetAddress) null, 8080, false); embedded.addConnector(connector); embedded.start(); -- Mikolaj Rydzewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Becomo S.A. tel. (12) 2927104 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Deploying new virtual hosts
Hi- For that many virtual domains, you may want to investigate using a commercial hosting application that allows you to manage the server from a web interface. They are available for Linux and Windows and may be worth the cost in time saved. -Terence M. Bandoian George Sexton wrote: I'm trying to sort out a way I can automate deploying new virtual hosts on my Tomcat server. Right now I'm running about 70 virtual hosts. Each virtual host has only one ROOT context. I'm planning on scaling up to at least 200 virtual hosts before I need to get a second machine. The second machine will probably be more powerful, and I'll want to scale it into the region of something like 1000 virtual hosts. I've looked through the documentation on the Tomcat site and don't think I'm seeing what I need. Ideally I would like something that would be scriptable that would let me automatically deploy the virtual hosts. If I can't get that, some application that would let me create a new virtual host without stopping and re-starting tomcat would be nice. I'm thinking in the near future I will need to deploy several new virtual hosts per day. If I can't do it automatically, I'd at least like one tool that works that could be used to create a virtual host correctly. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Deploying new virtual hosts
I think it would be a lot more practical for me to fix the things wrong with host-manager than to try and replicate so much of Tomcat's internal workings. George Sexton MH Software, Inc. http://www.mhsoftware.com/ Voice: 303 438 9585 -Original Message- From: Mikolaj Rydzewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 4:51 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Deploying new virtual hosts Have you tried embeded tomcat? It's very easy to set up, and add new hosts, contexts, etc. on the fly. So it would be possible with very little effort to create small app to create/delete any host inside such tomcat. Sample code: embedded = new Embedded(); embedded.setCatalinaHome(catalinaHome.getAbsolutePath()); Engine engine = embedded.createEngine(); engine.setDefaultHost(localhost); Host host = embedded.createHost(localhost, appBase.getAbsolutePath()); engine.addChild(host); Context ctx = embedded.createContext(/ctx, docBase.getAbsolutePath()); host.addChild(ctx); embedded.addEngine(engine); Connector connector = embedded.createConnector((InetAddress) null, 8080, false); embedded.addConnector(connector); embedded.start(); -- Mikolaj Rydzewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Becomo S.A. tel. (12) 2927104 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Deploying new virtual hosts
I'm trying to sort out a way I can automate deploying new virtual hosts on my Tomcat server. Right now I'm running about 70 virtual hosts. Each virtual host has only one ROOT context. I'm planning on scaling up to at least 200 virtual hosts before I need to get a second machine. The second machine will probably be more powerful, and I'll want to scale it into the region of something like 1000 virtual hosts. I've looked through the documentation on the Tomcat site and don't think I'm seeing what I need. Ideally I would like something that would be scriptable that would let me automatically deploy the virtual hosts. If I can't get that, some application that would let me create a new virtual host without stopping and re-starting tomcat would be nice. I'm thinking in the near future I will need to deploy several new virtual hosts per day. If I can't do it automatically, I'd at least like one tool that works that could be used to create a virtual host correctly. I've tried using the host-manager application, but it has some major problems. They are: 1) It auto deploys manager.xml. That's just rude. I don't want 70 copies of the manager application deployed, when they will never be used. The only change ever made to a host is in the aliases, and that can't be edited by the manager application. 2) The host creation parameters aren't serialized. Things like aliases and appbase are lost on re-start. 3) It does not create context.xml files in the [enginname]/[hostname] dirctory for any contexts that are auto-deployed when the virtual host is created. IOW, if I create a virtual host with a appbase of /home/abc, and there exists a web application /home/abc/ROOT, then I expect that it would create [enginename]/[hostname]/ROOT.xml. This is particularly important since appbase isn't getting saved. 4) There is no documentation. I looked at the Admin application (5.5.9). I just don't think its going to be up to any kind of task. 1) A major problem is that if there is a permission problem on any virtual host or context where it wants to write a file, the write of server.xml just aborts, and the user is given the message that changes were saved successfully. So, you just go along fine until you re-start the server and then the crap hits the fan in a really major way. 2) There were also issues where added aliases would not work until the virtual host was stopped and re-started. Of course the admin app doesn't give you any way of stopping and re-starting a host. You have to use host-manager for that. 3) Admin also seems incapable of deleting the manager application. 4) I've also noticed that admin puts WatchedResource entries in the context.xml even when the context is not reloadable, and it seems to add an extra entry for this each time the configuration is saved. I've been manually editing the server.xml file to add new host entries and then re-starting Tomcat. This hasn't been a really great solution, but it has worked. This is cumbersome because I don't want to bounce a lot of customers so I end up doing things in the late evening when possible. If I've missed a way of doing things, I'd appreciate any pointers. Thanks. George Sexton MH Software, Inc. http://www.mhsoftware.com/ Voice: 303 438 9585 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
