I have been asked to launch a new webapp in Tomcat via different URLs, with
each URL pointing to a different launch page for the same app. For example:
portal1.com --> webapps/portalapp/portal1_index.jsp
portal2.com --> webapps/portalapp/portal2_index.jsp
I don't know if this should be done by the app itself, or if there is a
simple/complicated way to do it in Tomcat. I have researched through the
O'Reilley Tomcat book, tomcat docs, and various forums, and have not found
any config documentation to do it. A welcome-file specification in the app's
web.xml doesn't seem to cut it, and I have tried to rig an Apache proxy but
still cannot get the right index file to be called first. Likely I just do
not fully understand some settings in Tomcat or Apache to do this right
(perhaps 'appBase' under <Host> or 'path' and 'docBase' under <Context> can
be used), hence I come to you. Any assistance is much appreciated. I hope my
description is clear; if there is more info/config stuff I can post let me
know.
I am running Tomcat 5.5.23 and Apache 2.2.3 on Redhat Linux 5, with
jdk-1.6.0_07-fcs. Here are some relevant sections of my configs that get me
as close as I have come. I can launch the app by domain URL, but not without
still specifying the index page in the URL (http://portal1.com/ won't work,
have to use http://portal1.com/portal1_index.jsp).
from server.xml:
<Host name="portal1.com" appBase="webapps/portal"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
<Context path="" docBase="."
debug="0" reloadable="false"/>
</Host>
from httpd.conf:
<VirtualHost ipaddr:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/portal1
ServerName portal1.com
<Directory "/var/www/html/portal1/">
allow from all
Options -Indexes
</Directory>
DirectoryIndex portal1_index.jsp
# Added to proxy for Tomcat
ProxyRequests Off
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>
ProxyPass / http://portal1.oucpm.org:8080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://portal1.oucpm.org:8080/
ProxyVia On
ProxyPreserveHost Off
</VirtualHost>
Again, many thanks for your consideration.
-Mike
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