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1. In development, the clients and tomcat will be on an intranet. I plan to use the hosts files of the client and tomcat boxes to map domain names to IP addresses, thereby preempting invocation of DNS, and thus exposure of our product-specific domain names to the Internet at-large, until the site is deployed publicly.
Question 1: Is this hosts-file approach feasible? Does tomcat care HOW domain names
are mapped to IP addresses?
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The following fragment is extracted from conf/server.xml of the the tomcat distribution:
<Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="webapps"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
<Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
directory="logs" prefix="localhost_log." suffix=".txt"
timestamp="true"/>
</Host>Question 2: Why is the host named localhost? From the documentation, I expected that only URL's of the form http://localhost:8080/... would be handled by this virtual host, but it seems to handle any URL's that map to the IP and port of the real host that tomcat serves.
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Question 3: How would one configure a 'local' virtual host, i.e. a host visible only on the box that runs tomcat?
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Thanks,
Bill
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