virtual host that adds a requestparameter to url

[Manuel Saettele]

Hi!
I'm trying to figure out how I can set up a virtual host that simply adds a request-parameter to my localhost-url.
I have a local website: localhost/mywebsite

Now I want to add the possibility that I enter localhost/websiteA which sort of automatically "forwards" me to localhost/mywebsite/?rq_param=websiteA and
localhost/websiteB to localhost/mywebsite/?rq_param=websiteB.

I think this is done by virtual hosts, isn't it? How?

Thanks in advance,
M*

[Tim Holloway]

A virtualhost is what would support urls like "http://websiteA/myapp" and "http://websiteB/myapp". In other words, 2 different hostnames.

The URLs "localhost/mywebsiteA" and "localhost/websiteB" correspond to 2 different webapp contexts on the same host (localhost).

Actually rewriting URLs can be done in a number of ways. If the primary webserver of the machine is Apache httpd, for example, you can use mod_rewrite, mod_proxy, mod_jk, and so forth. If you wish to do the rewriting in Tomcat itself, that would generally be handled via a custom Valve.