Hmmmm...interesting point. What does the admin webapp do, then, that you couldn't do from the command line? Is there something similar to Apache's 'apachectl restart' for Tomcat?
Can you call the admin webapp with a URL and have it do things? If so, that's the answer to the original post...you would just need a script to send the appropriate command, much like ant would or whatever, to the admin webapp. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:27 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: can tomcat do dynamic virtual hosts? > > > > > 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]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
