Re: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN

2006-10-29 Thread Alan Burlison
On 27/10/06, Caldarale, Charles R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 5.0 and 5.5 docs are mild upgrades of the 4.1 versions, and some areas did not get revised as much as they should have. 5.5 especially seems to be stricter on use of unnecessary attributes when the Context element is not in

Re: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN

2006-10-27 Thread Pid
And try adding Aliasmyhost.com/Alias, instead of changing the host name. The latter changes expected dir locations too, which is probably why your app is broken. p Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Alan Burlison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a

Re: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN

2006-10-27 Thread Alan Burlison
On 27/10/06, Pid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And try adding Aliasmyhost.com/Alias, instead of changing the host name. The latter changes expected dir locations too, which is probably why your app is broken. I suspect you are right - I renamed the directories under Catalina from localhost to the

Re: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN

2006-10-27 Thread Martin Gainty
, October 27, 2006 1:57 AM Subject: RE: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN From: Alan Burlison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN as soon as I change the Engine defaultHost and Host name fields from localhost to myhost.com, everything

RE: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN

2006-10-27 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Alan Burlison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN The really annoying thing is the Tomcat documentation shows FQDN names being used, yet it doesn't actually work unless you use 'localhost' - if you need to make other changes when you

RE: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN

2006-10-27 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Alan Burlison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN The odd thing is that it does appear to be serving *html* from under the web application directory, just not JSPs. If I put an index.html under webapps/ROOT I see the content. I've

Re: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN

2006-10-27 Thread Alan Burlison
If your host entry is pointing to the same IP as the host= in server.xml then that will work e.g. localhost is same as myhost.com If your host entry points to a different IP then change the host specification in server.xml to the new host name in your situation myhost.com Be sure to put the

Re: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN

2006-10-27 Thread Alan Burlison
I've just tried it again with both 5.5.20 and 6.0.0, changing localhost to myhost.com in two places in server.xml (Host and Engine) and in the Windows hosts file. Everything works, including JSPs and servlets. For 5.5.20, my server.xml is the default one with the two changes noted above. You

RE: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN

2006-10-27 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Alan Burlison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN I have it working - well, kinda. If I deploy the application as ROOT, and with ROOT as the docBase it works fine. If I move it to meshcms (the WAR file name) and modify docRoot

Re: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN

2006-10-27 Thread Alan Burlison
The above is confusing to me. Where is the app deployed? webapps/ROOT (works) or webapps/meshcms (doesn't) Where is the Context element for this app located? conf/server.xml What are the attributes specified for this Context? Context path= docBase=ROOT reloadable=false / With

RE: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN

2006-10-27 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Alan Burlison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN Ah, and I'm using 5.5. I've checked the 5.5 docs and I can't find *any* of those restrictions mentioned, other than a recommendation that Context elements aren't placed in server.xml

RE: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN

2006-10-26 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Alan Burlison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Changing defaultHost from localhost to a FQDN as soon as I change the Engine defaultHost and Host name fields from localhost to myhost.com, everything stops working. I just tried the same change, and it all works fine - assuming you