On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Turner, John wrote:
> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 08:05:18 -0500 > From: "Turner, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: 'Tomcat Users List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: can tomcat do dynamic virtual hosts? > > > Since a virtual host in Tomcat requires a Host element in server.xml, that > means a restart. In 4.1, at least for Tomcat standalone, this is not actually required -- for example, you can add new hosts (and the corresponding contexts) through the admin webapp and it becomes effective immediately without a restart. I don't know how that impacts the web server connectors though (since I never use them). > If you use the ApacheConfig option for JK, adding the new > Host is picked up automatically , and the corresponding Apache config > directives are generated. Then a "/path/to/apache/bin/apachectl graceful" > will pick those up without effecting other requests. > > How do you envision dynamic virtual hosts working? I think it's a huge > issue, not only from a usage POV, but from a design/architecture POV. I > doubt doing this is trivial, but I'm no developer so maybe it is. In any > case, I'm sure tomcat-dev would have better answers, suggestions or > guidance. > > John Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
