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List:       tomcat-user
Subject:    Re: Virtual Host Context Aliasing
From:       Christian Parpart <cparpart () surakware ! net>
Date:       2001-06-01 0:56:32
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On Friday 01 June 2001 02:40, you wrote:
> I have been told from a collegue of mine that an alias tag can be used.
> I have not tested this though, let me know if this works :)
>
>
>      <Host name="www.mycompany.com" ...>
>        ...
>        <Alias name="mycompany.com"/>
>        ...
>      </Host>
>

I've tested it without any success. Unfortunately.
But exactly that's it what has been said in the tomcat-server-howto.
Is it a bug? It must be....

Thanks,
Christian Parpart
http://www.surakware.net

>
> --Marcus
>
> On Thu, 31 May 2001, Jeff Kilbride wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 11:12:38 -0700
> > From: Jeff Kilbride <jeff@kilbride.com>
> > Reply-To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> > To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Virtual Host Context Aliasing
> >
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > I have the same problem -- wanting to alias more than one host name to a
> > single context. Unfortunately, there is no way to do this. I've heard
> > that the 4.0 version of Tomcat may have some abilities for doing this,
> > but it's not nearly as straightforward as Apache's ServerAlias directive.
> >
> > For now, I've turned off zzz.net (using your example) in my DNS and am
> > only serving www.zzz.net. I do a lot of connection pooling and other
> > shared resources, so I can't afford to have 2 versions of all my contexts
> > running at the same time. This is a totally unsatisfactory solution, but
> > it's my only choice for the moment.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --jeff
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Daniel Zen" <daniel@zendigital.com>
> > To: <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 8:55 AM
> > Subject: Virtual Host Context Aliasing
> >
> > > I would think this would be a common question, but I couldn't find it
> > > documented, nor asked on this list.
> > >
> > > Very often domains are served from 2 urls (www.zzz.net & zzz.net) with
> > > the same functionality. When I configure my virtual hosts in Apache's
> >
> > httpd.conf
> >
> > > this is easy:
> > >
> > > <VirtualHost _default_:80>
> > >  ServerName www.zzz.net
> > >  ServerAlias zzz.net
> > >  DocumentRoot /home/httpd/html/zzz
> > >  <Directory "/home/httpd/html/zzz/WEB-INF">
> > >   Options None
> > >   Deny from all
> > >  </Directory>
> > >  JkMount /*.jsp ajp13
> > >  JkMount /servlet/* ajp13
> > > </VirtualHost>
> > >
> > > The following properly placed in server.xml creates 2 seperate contexts
> >
> > for
> >
> > > the same set of servlets and JSPs. Functional, but a little wasteful.
> > >
> > >   <Host name="www.zzz.net" >
> > >        <Context path="" docBase="/home/httpd/html/zzz"
> > >         crossContext="true" debug="0" reloadable="true" trusted="false"
> > > /> </Host>
> > >
> > >   <Host name="zzz.net" >
> > >        <Context path="" docBase="/home/httpd/html/zzz"
> > >         crossContext="true" debug="0" reloadable="true" trusted="false"
> > > /> </Host>
> > >
> > > Now, I how do I do an alias Context in Tomcat's server.xml so that
> > > there
> >
> > is
> >
> > > only one Host/Context with multiple names??????
> > >
> > > Thank you in advance.
> > >
> > > Daniel Zen

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