Thanks Chris, I have running tomcat with mysite hosted on it.I am trying to extend it and get some extra mileage from my app.
I think I can go with hostname approach and see how it goes. I have another query for which I will open another discussion. Thanks everyone. - Kiran On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Kiran, > > On 9/4/15 12:25 PM, Kiran Badi wrote: > > Let me try again Chris, I have this site www.mysite.com ready with > > some x amount of features in it > > > > Now I need to customize this site based on regions,states, and > > cities.I will most likely go with cities. > > > > So I need my main site to redirect to city1.mysite.com .... etc > > based on cookie value which I create on mysite.com(This is landing > > page) > > > > > > > > what i need is similar to as what www.blogger.com or craiglist > > does.Ex > > http://www.quikr.com/all-cities,https://geo.craigslist.org/iso/us > > > > when we add a blog, it creates user.blogger.com and for another > > user, it creates user1.blogger.com > > > > I am looking something similar ? > > > > Can this be done with just tomcat or I need to front end tomcat > > with apache ? > > > > Is it required to spend extra money on DNS or creating different > > folder/subdirectory for each region ? > > > > I have a single war file, and I intent to do this isolation > > service layer/DB layer. > > > > Does this make sense ? > > > > I know its high level generic ask,but I really need some direction. > > Maybe I am again vague,but I hope examples will give some direction > > as what I am looking for. > > I agree with Chris Derham: if you have DNS set up to send *.mysite.com > to your service, then all of those requests will go to your Tomcat > server; it's up to you to decide what to do at that point. > > You *could* add an <Alias> (programmatically) for every single prefix > you might think of to auto-generate, OR you could just use the default > host for everything and then detect the hostname the user is using in > order to customize some part of your application. > > I wouldn't bother trying to modify the configuration of the running > Tomcat... instead, I'd just use the hostname to decide what to do once > inside the application. > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJV6dm/AAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYRkwQAJab8C/me3Uc46+w/8mSy+sH > E25uNcbG5Inkz3X4cFOsjjPMbgPzMBFCY2rGaguO9nAfAt17gfAFyxwWoa+tI/HW > i0US92kJwmlHWCTMgJKGBKQl7ca6BgwffzSvJuyfbdHHbLPeWH4CdgXSHCpgoX/8 > +gdi7Fawnq2elxvC2/xtWLSHfFBW7HkbJ6zKAD/U+zJPd2wh410sB0rZtm4yuFdt > KYKAhOw1lzQ2zTKM2L7PWSLKjYfBtP08Mdi09f5u22yqGG7S63YOUkHZZXfg3+ui > SowpRSuYe8KIfP+wgJxFxspyQ4xYVltaXeitZTgV1TWV760cGx3qbTYuAG6muf5e > xd+QheLD2hWnbRRqLhplJAvlxKgKA8FmqZ8iFR3h9WNiXLePXpEYZlZpNWOSOaQE > ju7lhP9BsNOWPidPv39i3YuOopnk5wyGaRivBwkgNLEzGwxmXkCEePnDf1kWumYQ > 8T6l2OjSw7owkMtDJI97DPs8jSUIYJMCPbxR+PlNXiMs2SzZV+KIiLYPVNwU+IMe > AjHYIOtgmH5G1nivu5tupjDutO4OY2gu66QDi7SzSFpZ0XvXAbml7asU3dwlppoq > RldOZ01zEI8Z6yu0RRlxer1jPaDExZBkGIxin2ILdpxd562yWOUFbGYgBpdOjhI1 > ldoTCter5Kxa0U6CaS1l > =USc4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
