Have you tried request.getHeader("host"); ?
"Mike Curwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Our Tomcat has one <host>. There is also only one webapp to which any
> request to the foo.com domain should go.
>
> Apache vhost blah.foo.com -> TC default host, default webapp
> Apache vhost abc.foo.com -> TC default host, default webapp
> Apache vhost xyz.foo.com -> TC default host, default webapp
>
> The webapp parses blah, abc and xyz.
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Angus Mezick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:37 AM
> > To: Tomcat Users List
> > Subject: RE: From which apache virtual host did a request come from?
> >
> >
> > Same deal. Apache doesn't know anything about webapps. You
> > just send requests for certain hosts to tomcat using
> > workers2.properties. Tomcat then uses its <host> entries to
> > decide which webapp get what.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Mike Curwen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 10:27 AM
> > > To: 'Tomcat Users List'
> > > Subject: RE: From which apache virtual host did a request come from?
> > >
> > >
> > > Actually, I was speaking about virtual hosts in Apache Web
> > Server. ;)
> > >
> > > A few more details:
> > >
> > > I have an application that parses the URI for some
> > > parameters. Basically
> > > the sponsors hate URLs that look like:
> > > http://www.foo.com/?foo=a&bar=b&baz=c
> > >
> > > So my fix was to parse the URI for the parameters in a known order.
> > > http://www.foo.com/a/b/c
> > >
> > > They don't like this either. less typing, cleaner, but *still* not
> > > 'friendly'. I might tell them that people using the web
> > are used to
> > > this sort of thing by now, but hey, they're the sponsors
> > and they want
> > > it different.
> > >
> > > So my last option is to flatten the parameters and use a subdomain.
> > >
> > > http://abc.foo.com/
> > > http://xyz.foo.com/
> > >
> > > So that's two virtual hosts in Apache, jk mounted to a single
> > > (default)
> > > application on Tomcat. That's possible, right?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: John Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 8:59 AM
> > > > To: Tomcat Users List
> > > > Subject: Re: From which apache virtual host did a request
> > come from?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > It's within <Host>.
> > > >
> > > > John
> > > >
> > > > Angus Mezick wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Isn't there an <Alias> tag within <Context>?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >>-----Original Message-----
> > > > >>From: John Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > >>Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:32 AM
> > > > >>To: Tomcat Users List
> > > > >>Subject: Re: From which apache virtual host did a request
> > > come from?
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >>Mike Curwen wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >>>1) Is it possible to mount several virtual hosts to
> > the same web
> > > > >>>application (the default one, as it happens)
> > > > >>
> > > > >>I think this is possible, though maybe not desired.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>You can see this with the manager app. Setup a bunch
> > of virtual
> > > > >>hosts that have the same appBase, with Contexts that have the
> > > > same docBase,
> > > > >>and you will be able to reach the same application on any
> > > > of the host
> > > > >>names. I determined that it was better to give a separate
> > > > appBase to
> > > > >>each virtual host.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>If you mean setting separate appBase's for each virtual
> > host, and
> > > > >>still being able to access the same webapp (Context
> > with the same
> > > > >>docBase not
> > > > >>a copy of the webapp in another docBase), I would say "no".
> > > > It's at
> > > > >>least a security risk. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
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