virtual host in tomcat

[ben josh]

Hello all

for demo purpose i need to set up 2 virtual hosts in tomcat

now i tried like million times to fallow simple tutorials about setting up virtual host but with no success

for example i like to set virtual host that will point to tomcat : webapps\tomcat-docs\appdev\sample\web

now this is what i did :

<Host name="www.my.com" appBase="webapps">
        <Context path="" docBase="/tomcat-docs/appdev/sample/web"/>
 
</Host>

but when i try to serf in IE with www.my.com

its not going noware .... what todo? or what im doing wrong here ?

[Bear Bibeault]

Do you own the domain my.com? If so, have you set up DNS servers appropriately?

[ben josh]

no i dont , its closed network , not connected to the internet

i tried to do this :
http://forums.rimuhosting.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10

but it still dont work

[ben josh]

the error im geting :

 Jan 9, 2007 7:00:28 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 875 ms
Jan 9, 2007 7:01:17 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig checkResources
INFO: Undeploying context []
Jan 9, 2007 7:01:17 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor
WARNING: A docBase C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\tomcat-docs\appdev\sample\web inside the host appBase has been specified, and will be ignored
Jan 9, 2007 7:01:17 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext resourcesStart
SEVERE: Error starting static Resources
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\tomcat-docs\appdev\sample\web\context does not exist or is not a readable direc
        at org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext.setDocBase(FileDirContext.java:140)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.resourcesStart(StandardContext.java:3814)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3985)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:608)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:535)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:470)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1190)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:292)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.backgroundProcess(ContainerBase.java:1305)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1569)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1578)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1558)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Jan 9, 2007 7:01:17 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error in resourceStart()
Jan 9, 2007 7:01:18 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error getConfigured
Jan 9, 2007 7:01:18 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/context] startup failed due to previous errors
Jan 9, 2007 7:01:18 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext stop
INFO: Container org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[www.lb1.com].[/context] has not been started   

[William Brogden]

When I set up virtual hosts in Tomcat 5.5.9 I use a Host entry that looks like:

      <Host name="www.wbrogdenx.com" appBase="c:\Servers\Hosts\wbrogdenx"
       unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
       xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
      </Host>    

Note that the appBase is an absolute directory address and there is no Context entry.

Bill

[ben josh]

it still does not work , do i need configure something else ?

maybe on the pc im working on?

help me im getting crazy ...

[Ben Souther]

 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\tomcat-docs\appdev\sample\web\context does not exist or is not a readable direc   

Did you verify that this directory exists?
Does it have a WEB-INF directory inside it?

If not, Tomcat will not recognize it as a valid web structure.

[William Brogden]

What exactly does your <Host> entry look like now?
What exactly is the error that is reported?

Bill

[ben josh]

Hello all and thanks for your help
it seams that defining virtual hosts based on one ip is working after i define it in the windows hosts file
BUT now i have new problem .
now i need to define 2 hosts based on 2 ips that is i defined 2 ip on my local pc then i configure in the server.xml
something like this :

 <Host name="194.233.34.82" appBase="="/tomcat-docs/appdev/sample/web"
       unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
       xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
      </Host> 

and its working fine when i serf by this ip but how do i configure dns name to that ip?
thanks

[William Brogden]

I suspect you can figure that out from this Tomcat documentation. (warning, I have not actually done this)

Bill

[ben josh]

sorry but i do not find it there ..

[William Brogden]

Isnt there something in those docs about defining multiple aliases for a host?

I found that the Host tag uses the exact name only it won't recognize a host name if what it has is the IP numbers.

Bill

[ben josh]

ok so i didn't understand it right i guess ..
the alias used to map the name to the host ip ?
is it right ?

[ben josh]

hello all
i have another question can i run on the same pc 2 instances of tomcat ? on port 80
but with different ip's?