Hosts and ROOT folder
Hi all I'am new to Tomcat, so please do not kill me if the issue is simple or my english is bad. I'am running Tomcat 7.0.42 on WinServer 2012 R2. It is front end for a Digital Asset Management system. The Tomcat is installed as part of the DAM system and could be different from a plain vanilla install. My problem is Host and path to webapps. I basically only have one webapp witch is duplicated when I get a new customer. But when I deploy a new webapp and make a host element in conf\server.xml, I have to make a folder named ROOT in my webapp (webapps/customer/ROOT) and move all files to this folder to get things working. We also did that in a very old version (3 or 4), but haven't done that in several years. I can see the default webapp is also in a ROOT folder. When I put the files in the ROOT folder my application guy can't see the site in his administration tool for the DAM system. Where is it defined that files for my webapps goes in a ROOT folder? I tried to make a folder in conf/Catalina/ reflecting the name of the webapp, I can't get that to work either. My last try will be to define docbase in the host element in server.conf, but in the documentation this is not recommended. All help would be appreciated. If you need more info please tell me. Thanks Venlig hilsen / Best regards Michael Salmon IT-Chef t: +45 87 95 55 43 m: +45 24 86 40 08 [datagraf]http://www.datagraf.dk/ Jaegerg?rdsgade 122, DK-8000 Aarhus C * t: +45 87 95 55 55 * www.datagraf.dkhttp://www.datagraf.dk
Re: Hosts and ROOT folder
On 27/05/2014 09:32, Michael Salmon wrote: Hi all I'am new to Tomcat, so please do not kill me if the issue is simple or my english is bad. We won't kill you. We might point you towards some documentation though ;) And don't worry about your English. I am sure it is orders of magnitude better than most of us here could manage in your native language. I'am running Tomcat 7.0.42 on WinServer 2012 R2. It is front end for a Digital Asset Management system. The Tomcat is installed as part of the DAM system and could be different from a plain vanilla install. My problem is Host and path to webapps. I basically only have one webapp witch is duplicated when I get a new customer. But when I deploy a new webapp and make a host element in conf\server.xml, I have to make a folder named ROOT in my webapp (webapps/customer/ROOT) and move all files to this folder to get things working. We also did that in a very old version (3 or 4), but haven't done that in several years. I can see the default webapp is also in a ROOT folder. When I put the files in the ROOT folder my application guy can't see the site in his administration tool for the DAM system. Where is it defined that files for my webapps goes in a ROOT folder? I tried to make a folder in conf/Catalina/ reflecting the name of the webapp, I can't get that to work either. My last try will be to define docbase in the host element in server.conf, but in the documentation this is not recommended. All help would be appreciated. If you need more info please tell me. OK. The simplest thing will be to provide us with the following: 1) Your full server.xml. Please remove all comments and replace any sensitive information (e.g. passwords, customer names etc.) 2) The file structure under webapps. Mark - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
Re: Hosts and ROOT folder
Michael Salmon wrote: Hi all I'am new to Tomcat, so please do not kill me if the issue is simple or my english is bad. I'am running Tomcat 7.0.42 on WinServer 2012 R2. It is front end for a Digital Asset Management system. The Tomcat is installed as part of the DAM system and could be different from a plain vanilla install. My problem is Host and path to webapps. I basically only have one webapp witch is duplicated when I get a new customer. But when I deploy a new webapp and make a host element in conf\server.xml, I have to make a folder named ROOT in my webapp (webapps/customer/ROOT) and move all files to this folder to get things working. We also did that in a very old version (3 or 4), but haven't done that in several years. I can see the default webapp is also in a ROOT folder. When I put the files in the ROOT folder my application guy can't see the site in his administration tool for the DAM system. Where is it defined that files for my webapps goes in a ROOT folder? I tried to make a folder in conf/Catalina/ reflecting the name of the webapp, I can't get that to work either. My last try will be to define docbase in the host element in server.conf, but in the documentation this is not recommended. All help would be appreciated. If you need more info please tell me. Well, you're right, it's hard not to kill you, but we will try. This list would quickly get boring if we killed all the newcomers. And I personally welcome that kind of question anway, because it is one of the few kinds which I can answer, so I get bonus points. First, a note : whenever possible, you should try to avoid modifying conf/server.xml. That's mainly because if you make a change there, you have to restart Tomcat to make it notice. But in your case, if you create a new Host for each new customer, there is no other way, so keep doing it. Some data : each Host in server.xml has its own appBase, which is the top directory in which webapps (also named context) for that Host are located. By default, this is webapps, which is a relative location, which by default points to : (tomcat-installation-directory)/webapps/. But you can create another directory somewhere, and point the appBase of another Host to this new directory, and then this Host will look in that place for its own webapps. Normally, any given application (or webapp or context) is accessed by a URL of the form : http://hostname[:port]/webapp-name/ where webapp-name is the name of a sub-directory just below the appBase directory for that Host. So - if your application would be (imaginatively) named myWebApp - and your Host name would be (imaginatively) named customer1.customers.com - and the corresponding Host tage would be like Host name=customer1.customers.com appBase=C:/websites/customer1/webapps/ ... then - the place to put your application would be in C:/websites/customer1/webapps/myWebApp/ - and the customer would access it via a URL like : http://customer1.customers.com/myWebApp/...; Then, one more thing : If you want your application to be the default webapp, which the user could call up with a URL like : http://customer1.customers.com/ then you have to do the following : - create a directory C:/websites/customer1/webapps/ROOT/ - and place your application there (That name ROOT (in capitals, important) is interpreted by Tomcat in a special way, so that if Tomcat does not recognise the name of the application requested in the URL, it will default to looking there). (Kind of). Of course, for all of this to work (and for the users to be able to get to that webserver), the name customer1.customers.com would have to be registered in the DNS system, with the IP address of your Tomcat server. Hope this helps. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
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On 27/05/2014 11:59, Michael Salmon wrote: Hi Here is my server.xml snip/ Host name=localhost appBase=webapps unpackWARs=true autoDeploy=true Valve className=org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve directory=logs prefix=localhost_access_log. suffix=.txt pattern=%h %l %u %t quot;%rquot; %s %b / /Host Host name=nilfisk-alto debug=0 appBase=webapps/nilfisk-alto unpackWARs=true Aliasnilfisk-alto.datagraf.dk/Alias Logger className=org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger directory=logs prefix=virtual_nilfisk-alto. suffix=.log timestamp=true/ /Host snip/ The problem is that you have overlapping appBase settings between virtual hosts. The simplest solution is to change the appBase for localhost to webapps/localhost and move any web applications in webapps into webapps/localhost. Mark - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
