What about a non-tomcat solution like a load balancer (apache, nginx?) in front of your tomcats?
Sent from my iPhone On 21.08.2012, at 12:25, Miguel González Castaños <miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a Tomcat web server. From time to time, I need to do some > maintenance and want people not to interact with the Tomcat server while I'm > doing it. The key thing here is that the Tomcat server is up and running. > This is what I want to achieve: > > - I want all people to be redirected from 80/443 port at server1 to a > different URL http://server2/maintenance.html except my IP address (so I can > check Tomcat myself). > > - If possible, I want this to be transparent to the user, so they get a http > redirect showing the server1 in the client's browser, not server2 (but this > is not that important). > > I assume I can use iptables to redirect people to a different web server, > but how can I know that I need to redirect them to the maintenance.html if > that server is serving other web pages too? > > Regards, > > Miguel > > > This message and any attachments are intended for the use of the addressee or > addressees only. The unauthorised disclosure, use, dissemination or copying > (either in whole or in part) of its content is not permitted. If you received > this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it from your > system. Emails can be altered and their integrity cannot be guaranteed by the > sender. > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
