Thanks for the reply. So, you're saying that if I have a single deployed webapp, and I just enter a few such domains (e.g., c1.mydomain.com, c2.mydomain.com, etc) into DNS to point to this server, that tomcat will automatically instantiate a separate webapp instance for each access subdomain?
On Jan 30, 2008 2:38 PM, David Delbecq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's technically possible that cookies get shared accros domains, > setting the cookie domaine to .mydomain.com. However, it will be of no > help to you, because each subdomain runs it's own set of webapps in > tomcat. The session can't be shared across webapps. If you need to > shared datas with your subdomain, you would need a way to pass an > identifier (a cookie) accross domains your self and get yourself shared > datas from some common repository of data (a database for example). > > As for just authentification, a valve like the signle sign on valve > could be useful. But valves won't magically make your session datas shared. > > > Steve Parker a écrit : > > Guys, > > > > I am using several sub-domains that all point to the same app (they > > cause different content to be displayed, depending on the > > sub-domain). For example, I have: > > > > content1.myapp.com > > content2.myapp.com > > content3.myapp.com > > ..etc... > > > > I need the session data to be shared across these subdomains, so that > > when a user is clicking around the app, crossing across sub-domains, > > they won't lose the session state (e.g., if they're logged in, etc). > > > > I understand that Tomcat uses session cookies to associate server > > session with the client request. And I understand that the default > > behavior of this causes these session cookies to be specific to a > > domain/sub-domain. > > > > My question: > > > > How can I make the session cookies get written so that they are > > relevant to ALL sub-domains under the main domain. I have read a few > > things that say that if you set the domain of the cookie to be > > ".mydomain.com", it will be associated with all sub-domains of that > > primary domain. But, not sure how to do this since tomcat has some > > built in way of setting these cookies... I saw something with valves, > > but need more info. > > > > Any help here, or suggestions for a different approach altogether for > > sharing session state across sub-domains, would be very much appreciated. > > > > thx, > > steve > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
