configure 2 host name in webserver

[Nicky Eng]

I have 2 host name : www.domain1.com , www.domain2.com

Both of them will be sharing the same server e.g. 111.12.123.123

I have 2 apps which named "app1" & "app2".

app1 is stored in 111.12.123.123's Tomcat5.5/webapps/

app2 is stored in another server 111.12.123.124's tomcat5.5/webapps/

My question is , what should i configure in tomcat5.5/conf/server.xml file to make www.domain2.com in 111.12.123.123 server to point to 'app2' homepage in 111.12.123.124 ?

I have tomcat in both server.

Please help...anyone ?
Thanks in advanced.

Regards
Nick

[David O'Meara]

in my opinion you would be better with a single apache HTTPD instance serving both domains on a single IP and then using mod_jk workers to redirect to the tomcat instances

[Nicky Eng]

Inside server.xml of Tomcat 5.5/conf/ I will have to put this in...is it correct ?

*Please look at Context part ...

   
<Service name="domain1">

    <!-- Define a non-SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8080 -->
    <Connector port="80" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
               maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
               enableLookups="false" redirectPort="443" acceptCount="100"
               connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" />
    <!-- Note : To disable connection timeouts, set connectionTimeout value
     to 0 -->

    <!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 -->
    <Connector port="8009"
               enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" protocol="AJP/1.3" />

    <!-- Define the top level container in our container hierarchy -->
    <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="www.domain2.com">

	<Host name="www.domain2.com" debug="0" appBase="webapps"
       	 unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
   	 xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">

	<Context path="" docBase="app2"/>

	<Alias>www.domain2.com</Alias>
	</Host>

      <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"
       unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
       xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">

        <Context path="" reloadable="true"
         docBase="d:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\app2" />    <!--  I'm wondering if this 'docBase' can point to '111.12.123.124\D:\tomcat 5.5\webapps\app2'     -->

      </Host>

    </Engine>

  </Service> 

 

[David O'Meara]

I wouldn't, but then I have only considered it using the httpd/jk/tomcat method

[Tim Holloway]

The magic words are "Virtual Hosting", and I think they added it when I wasn't looking, since last time I wanted it, it wasn't this simple:

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/virtual-hosting-howto.html