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Subject: RE: Virtual Hosting Questions
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H=
i,

>The mapping of domain names to ip's is done (as usual) in the IP stac=
k.
>Thus, using the /hosts /files on
>tomcat client and server boxes works fine for development scenarios
>where you do not want to
>expose you production domain names to the Internet via DNS. I
originally
>asked the question
>because the tomcat docs only mention DNS as the mapping agent, which
>seemed overly specific
>to me, unless tomcat had some reason to insist on DNS, which is
>apparently not the case.

Feel free to submit a doc patch for this issue.

>I do not think /just the default name/ is correct. It seems that the
>name attribute value must be a name
> that the client and server IP stacks can map to an IP address for th=
e
>configuration to work, which
>does have to do with the host name in the browser's URL.

Yup, the docs have already been amended for that, now saying that this=

must be a network name.

>Also, the name 'localhost' seems to be 'magic' in that there is code
>triggered by the occurrence of that
>particular name.  As others on the list have pointed out,  a value of=

>'localhost' in the <Host name=3D...>
>attribute is mapped to 0.0.0.0, so that the host can respond to
requests
>from any domain.

When you or "others" can show me where in the Catalina code "localhost=
"
is magic or hard-wired, we can work on a better approach together.

Yoav Shapira http://www.yoavshapira.com



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