Omg I must be tired... Ex-ay on the reply-ay... (can you tell I'm tired??)
Final configuration: /tomcat_home/conf/server.xml <!-- ip 123.234.345.1 --> <Host name="domain1.com" appBase="/home/web/domain1.com/webapps" ~~~ no directory after webapps unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"> </Host> Webapp starts fine, serves fine... rest of previous is okay - just the server.xml section ~LZM~ -----Original Message----- From: Lessie Z. Mitch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:33 PM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: Virtual Hosts: path="/" without using ROOT folder? This is going to be long... so bear with me. My want was to name the context xmls something other than "ROOT". In a previous setup I had with TC5.5.16, my contexts were actually in the server.xml document - which we all know is really a bad thing. I had other webapps running on the same host so when accessing them will be with a root domain and then subapps which are explicitly named in the url. We did not want to use "ROOT" as there are several hosts and "ROOT" gets confusing. Keep in mind all .war files extract their own directories in each instance (thus directories being explicit). Example 3 virtual hosts: domain1 domain2 domain3 All needing to be separate due to SSL issues, thus had IP structure defined in Apache (yet another story - will stick to TC configurations) OLD SETUP /tomcat_home/conf/server.xml <!-- ip 123.234.345.1 --> <Host name="domain1.com" appBase="/home/web/domain1/webapps/domain1" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"> <Context path="/" docBase="/home/web/domain1/webapps/domain1" reloadable="true"> </Context> <Context path="/wiki1" docBase="/home/web/domain1/webapps/wiki1" reloadable="true"> </Context> <Context path="/forum1" docBase="/home/web/domain1/webapps/forum1" reloadable="true"> </Context> </Host> <!-- ip 123.234.345.2 --> <Host name="domain2.com" appBase="/home/web/domain2/webapps/domain2" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"> <Context path="/" docBase="/home/web/domain2/webapps/domain2" reloadable="true"> </Context> <Context path="/wiki2" docBase="/home/web/domain2/webapps/wiki2" reloadable="true"> </Context> <Context path="/forum2" docBase="/home/web/domain2/webapps/forum2" reloadable="true"> </Context> </Host> <!-- ip 123.234.345.3 --> <Host name="domain2.com" appBase="/home/web/domain3/webapps/domain3" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"> <Context path="/" docBase="/home/web/domain3/webapps/domain3" reloadable="true"> </Context> <Context path="/wiki3" docBase="/home/web/domain3/webapps/wiki3" reloadable="true"> </Context> <Context path="/forum3" docBase="/home/web/domain3/webapps/forum3" reloadable="true"> </Context> </Host> Physical Directories: Home \__web \__domain1 \__logs \__webapps \__domain1 \__wiki1 \__forum1 \__domain2 \__logs \__webapps \__domain2 \__wiki2 \__forum2 \__domain3 \__logs \__webapps \__domain3 \__wiki3 \__forum3 I didn't use anything "ROOT" for the server.xml explicitly called out my contexts and segregated them. I will note that this was a stable configuration until about the beginning of December08. I don't know what happened, but my server became unstable, and eventually had a memory melt-down (we called it a stroke). I had to totally redo the server - from scratch. So now I move the contexts out of the server.xml into this recommended configuration. Keep in mind, I am STILL working with war files that extract to directories. /tomcat_home/conf/server.xml <!-- ip 123.234.345.1 --> <Host name="domain1.com" appBase="/home/web/domain1.com/webapps/domain1" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"> </Host> <!-- ip 123.234.345.2 --> <Host name="domain2.com" appBase="/home/web/domain2.com/webapps/domain2" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"> </Host> <!-- ip 123.234.345.3 --> <Host name="domain2.com" appBase="/home/web/domain3.com/webapps/domain3" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"> </Host> Context files for domain1 (will only do domain1 as the other two are mimicked) /tomcat_home/conf/Catalina/domain1.com/ROOT.xml ~~ this is so that when type http://domain1.com/ site will appear <Context docBase="/home/web/domain1.com/domain1" reloadable="true"> </Context> /tomcat_home/conf/Catalina/domain1.com/wiki1.xml ~~ this is so that when type http://domain1.com/wiki this sub-site will appear <Context docBase="/home/web/domain1.com/wiki1" reloadable="true"> </Context> /tomcat_home/conf/Catalina/domain1.com/form1.xml ~~ this is so that when type http://domain1.com/forum this sub-site will appear <Context docBase="/home/web/domain1.com/forum1" reloadable="true"> </Context> Physical directory Home \__web \__domain1.com \__domain1 ~~~ from war located in webapps, moved it out as war extracts into webapps \__wiki ~~~ from war located in webapps, moved it out as war extracts into webapps \__forum ~~~ from war located in webapps, moved it out as war extracts into webapps \__webapps \__logs NOTE: .war files are still inside the webapps directory and had to be moved out manually to follow Mark's recommended configuration or static resources are not loaded. Rinse & repeat for other domains This is now working on my server. Although not exactly what I wanted... 1-had to move extracted war directories OUT of webapps 2-ROOT context in /tomcat_home/conf/Catalina/domain1 directory (using that "ROOT" name) I did try it by naming the context file, but then had to explicitly call up my site in the browser as such: http://domain1.com/domain1 and that is undesirable. One thing that I thought of is to perform a "redirect" from an index.jsp file, but then that starts to get a bit confusing and once again undesirable. Why does my original configuration not work anymore? I will keep Mark's recommended configuration but would like to know they "why" behind the "how". Helps me understand when launching other sites on this server (there will be another 4 virtual hosts, each serving up 3 or 4 webapps). Hope this helps you some ahnf (op) and Jeff... I know this thread helped me. Now, I go fight with the mod_jk.... ~LZM~ -----Original Message----- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:41 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Virtual Hosts: path="/" without using ROOT folder? Lessie Z. Mitch wrote: > Sorry.. didn't finish... (hit the damned button) > > And my application context.xml files would read something like... No - completely wrong. In short (just doing one host) you want something like: /tomcat_home/conf/server.xml <!-- virtual host mywebapp1 --> <Host name="mydomain1.net" appBase="home/web/mydomain1.net/webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"> </Host> Context file location (for ROOT webapp): /tomcat_home/conf/Catalina/mydomain1.net/ROOT.xml Contents of .../mydomain1.net/ROOT.xml: <Context path="" docBase="/some/other/path/foobar.war" reloadable="true"> </Context> The docBase *must not* be under the appBase (home/web/mydomain1.net/webapps) Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.1/1299 - Release Date: 2/26/2008 9:08 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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