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Saurabh Saxena
Saurabh Saxena

Reputation: 3205

Virtual host not working in tomcat6

I am using Linux 12.04 Precise. I just have sudo rights on my machine. I have created a jsp website and tried to create virtual hosts on my machine so that the website url look distinguished like :

www.myapp.com

rather than

127.0.0.1/myapp/

So, after going through many articles on the internet. Like

Virtual-hosting-how-to

I have created an entry in server.xml like below for my virtual host

<Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">
<Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps"
            unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
            xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
</Host>
<Host name="www.myapp.com" appBase="libapps" unpackWARs="true"
        autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
</Host>
</Engine>

For this, as mentioned in the tutorial, I have created a directory in $CATALINA_HOME named libapps and placed my application war file inside. When i look into the host-manager app of tomcat6, it is showing my virtual host but it is not working on starting. Before this, i have restarted tomcat6 on changing server.xml.

What else can i do to make my application functional ??

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2793

Answers (1)

Saurabh Saxena
Saurabh Saxena

Reputation: 3205

Done with simple steps after a long follow through of internet tutorials :)

Step 1 : Add an entry in your server.xml

<Host name="www.your-domain.com"  appBase="libapps"
            unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
            xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
</Host>

Step 2 : Create directories in your $CATALINA_HOME for the appbase 

sudo mkdir /var/lib/tomcat6/libapps

Create following directories for virtual-host configuration

sudo mkdir /var/lib/tomcat6/conf/Catalina/www.your-domain.com

Copy following files to this directory

host-manager.xml
manager.xml
ROOT.xml

from 

/var/lib/tomcat6/conf/Catalina/localhost

directory

Step 3 : Add an entry in /etc/hosts file

XX.XX.XX.XX     www.your-domain.com

Step 4 : After this just restart your tomcat using following command

sudo service tomcat6 restart

Step 5 : Now, you can access your new virtual-host by typing following url in your browser

www.your-domain.com:8080

Step 6 : Just access manager app from this host and deploy your war file. :)

Step 7 : Now, if you want to remove ip address from the url and use a good looking url like

www.your-domain.com

Then, you have to make an entry in 

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

like below:

ProxyPass / http://www.your-domain.com:8080/app-name/
ProxyPassReverse / http://www.your-domain.com:8080/app-name/

Step 8 : Now, you can access your application from

www.your-domain.com

Upvotes: 2

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