Thanks all for your replies and sorry for the upper case. I am already parsing the domain name in my app and I think I will stick to that. Regards, J.
2010/12/11 André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> > Let me add something to my previous answer, to kind of wrap up also what > the others responded. > > (a) With the Alias solution, there will be a single copy of your web > application. > To react differently depending on the hostname that the users call up, that > web application can get the hostname of the request that was sent, and do > conditional things depending on it. > > (b) With the virtual Host solution, there will be multiple copies of your > web application, one for each different domain name. > > The second solution may seem like a duplication. However, you have to > think a bit in advance. Currently, maybe the difference between the > application for users of host A and the application for the users of host B > are really small, and you do not think that you need 2 separate web apps. > But it most cases, you will find out that these differences increase with > time, and that you will find yourself adding always more conditional code to > your application, and making it more and more complicated and less and less > maintainable. > In that case, it is probably better to start with solution (b) in the first > place. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
