On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:59:19 -0400 (EDT), Jan Labanowski wrote:
>Again... Without knowing what you want to do, it is hard to advise.
>The <Host>....</Host> if for setting virtual hosts in Tomcat.
>You say, you want to connect Tomcat to Apache.
>Then you should do virtual hosts in Apache, not in Tomcat.
I would have to disagree on this point. How successfully Tomcat
does this in all situations is a different matter, but I think a lot of
people want to do something like this:
<VirtualHost 10.0.0.1>
...
JkMount /*.jsp ajp13
...
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 10.0.0.2>
...
JkMount /*.jsp ajp13
...
</VirtualHost>
In this case, Tomcat has to know about the virtual hosts to have two
unique root contexts. In fact, I've set up a system this way with the 3.2.3
version, but I couldn't get the same thing to work when separating the
Apache and Tomcat machines from each other.
IMHO, Tomcat should be looking at the contents of the ServerName
field on requests from Apache to determine what host to use in its own
configuration. Otherwise, you're stuck with running multiple instances of
Tomcat like I am right now, or you're forced to run it on the same machine
as Apache (and I have no idea why that works).
Note: I did get this to work to an extent with machines separated, but it
didn't reliably work under different forms of requests (HTTP 1.0 instead
of 1.1 for IP-based hosts, IP instead of named-based hosts with the IP
in the URL request instead of the name, and a few others that I forget).
Best Regards,
Jason Koeninger
J&J Computer Consulting
http://www.jjcc.com
