Hi Chris,
I've looked at committing your patch. However, in reviewing
who uses Context.getHost(), I a little nervous about having
Context.getHost() contain a wildcard. (I think this is what
your patch implies.) Though I don't think anything bad
happens currently, Context.getHost() is used in a number
of locations which would seem as though they aren't expecting
a wildcard. ContextManager.createRequest() is the one that
make me the most nervous.
Context does have a vhostAliases field. This would seem
a more appropriate location for your wildcard string.
Unfortunately, I don't think vhostAliases can be specified
in server.xml or apps-xxx.xml yet. You are welcome to look
into adding that. I'll try to find time if you can't.
Once that is done, your patch and a simple update to
SimpleMapper1.addContext() should get the behavior you desire
without putting a wildcard in Context.getHost().
Cheers,
Larry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Bryden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: SimpleMapper1.java
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> Hi,
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> I didn't get a response from the last mail I sent on this
> subject, but I
> hope I could borrow a few minutes of your time to at least
> point me in the
> direction of the relevant documentation on virtual hosts in tomcat...
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> I am using
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> Apache 1.3.20 and Tomcat 3.3 on Linux 2.4.5
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> We use a large number of virtual hosts in apache of the form
> xyz.subdomain.ourdomain.com. They all point to the same
> context, with the
> xyz art of the name being used by the webapp to determine how it was
> accessed and set content accordingly...
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> In the apache configuration, the virtual host is defined using the
> ServerAlias directive and a wildcard, however, tomcat seems
> to need the
> Host tags in server.xml to exactly match the host header..
>
> I was under a lot of pressure to get this working at the
> time, so hacked
> SimpleMapper1.java so that I could put a wildcard in my Host tag in
> server.xml according to the attached patch...
>
> The question I have is, what is the future for defining
> wildcard hosts in
> the Host tags in server.xml..? I would be more than happy to
> help with any
> development in this area, but I need to know what the plans
> are for virtual
> host definitions in server.xml
>
> If the reason that I didn't get a reply to my earlier mail is
> that I am
> being a complete muppet, please could you direct me to the
> relevent docs so
> I can demuppetize :-)
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Chris
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