Please Help Setting Up Site

2006-01-28 Thread Scott Purcell 
Hello,

I have been screwing around with a few Tomcat 5.5 problems for some time, and 
cannot seem to resolve them, and could use some help.

First off. 
1) I have a real web site that needs to be shown to the world. I have purchased 
a DNS entry and created the site.
I am running on port 80. 
After installing a clean tomcat, I put the folder under webapps. The folder 
is the webapp.
I am running a certificate under Catalina in server.xml for this site.
In server.xml I only changed 8080 to 80. And left the host as localhost
   Now if someone types in the proper http://www.mysite.com all is good.
   PROBLEM: when friends and family type in http://mysite.com (forgetting) the 
www, they get to my site, but get the message that the certificate
is wrong. And this makes sense because the certificate is assigned to 
www.mysite.com, not mysite.com. Make sense?
   How can I get around this problem. It is killing me.


Please if anyone has ideas, let me know. 
Do I need to do anything with my dns entry in tomcat?

Also, what is the admin module I see and can I install it on a existing 
Tomcat 5.5 server?

RE: Please Help Setting Up Site

2006-01-28 Thread Caldarale, Charles R 
 From: Scott Purcell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Subject: Please Help Setting Up Site
 
Now if someone types in the proper http://www.mysite.com 
 all is good.
PROBLEM: when friends and family type in http://mysite.com 
 (forgetting) the www, they get to my site, but get the 
 message that the certificate is wrong.

I haven't tried this myself, so I may be full of it, but I believe I've
seen filters used to redirect the shortcut site name to the proper one
in order to match what's in the certificate.  Review the servlet spec
and search the mailing list archives for filter how-to info.

 Also, what is the admin module I see and can I install it 
 on a existing Tomcat 5.5 server? 

The admin app provides a browser interface to much of the Tomcat
configuration.  Just download and unzip into the same directory
structure in which you installed Tomcat.  By default, admin uses the
conf/tomcat-users.xml file for authentication, so you have to put a
userid with the role of admin in there.  Don't update the users list
while Tomcat is running, or your updates may get lost.

 - Chuck


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Re: Please Help Setting Up Site

2006-01-28 Thread Rhino 
Excuse me for top-posting but Outlook Express is not letting me intersperse 
my reply in your original note correctly


The answer to your problem *may* be at http://ZoneEdit.com. ZoneEdit is very 
useful service that lets you manage DNS issues more easily; it is free if 
you have only a small number of sites to manage. If you go to their site, 
you should be able to set up a free account for yourself using the 
information on the screens provided (follow the Sign Up link), then create 
DNS entries that map www.mysite.com to mysite.com. I haven't set up an 
account in a fair while so my memory is rusty on the details but I seem to 
recall finding it fairly simple to create the entries I needed and I am no 
DNS guru by any stretch of the imagination!


The reason I said that ZoneEdit *may* solve your problem is the certificate 
issue. I don't see anything about certificates in the pages that list the 
settings for my domains. You may need to handle the certificate issue 
outside of ZoneEdit; I don't know nearly enough about certificates to talk 
intelligently about them. You can also email ZoneEdit and ask them 
questions; they do tech support by email and respond pretty quickly, usually 
within a couple of hours (at least on weekdays). They probably know how 
certificates get handled even if they don't manage certificates themselves.


Rhino


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Subject: Please Help Setting Up Site


Hello,

I have been screwing around with a few Tomcat 5.5 problems for some time, 
and cannot seem to resolve them, and could use some help.


First off.
1) I have a real web site that needs to be shown to the world. I have 
purchased a DNS entry and created the site.

   I am running on port 80.
   After installing a clean tomcat, I put the folder under webapps. The 
folder is the webapp.

   I am running a certificate under Catalina in server.xml for this site.
   In server.xml I only changed 8080 to 80. And left the host as 
localhost

  Now if someone types in the proper http://www.mysite.com all is good.
  PROBLEM: when friends and family type in http://mysite.com (forgetting) 
the www, they get to my site, but get the message that the certificate
   is wrong. And this makes sense because the certificate is assigned to 
www.mysite.com, not mysite.com. Make sense?

  How can I get around this problem. It is killing me.


Please if anyone has ideas, let me know.
Do I need to do anything with my dns entry in tomcat?

Also, what is the admin module I see and can I install it on a existing 
Tomcat 5.5 server?







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