On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 3:39 PM, André Warnier (tomcat) <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
> Hi. > Another tip : on his list,mit is preferred if you respond in or below the > previous text. > That's why I moved your previous answer. > It makes it easier to follow the conversation without having to scroll > back and forth all the time. > > > > >> >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:03 PM, André Warnier (tomcat) <a...@ice-sa.com> >> wrote: >> >> On 17.06.2016 17:03, Sean Son wrote: >>> >>> Hello all >>>> >>>> I am new to the list. This is what i am trying to do but need help on: >>>> >>>> >>>> I have a webapp running on tomcat 8: >>>> https://myapp.example.com:8443/myapp >>>> >>>> I am going to set up a DNS record myapp.example.com which will point to >>>> the >>>> IP address of the tomcat server that hosts the webapp.. I want this new >>>> DNS >>>> record myapp.example.com to redirect to >>>> https://myapp.example.com:8443/myapp. >>>> In other words, I want the URL to redirect port 80 to the URL for the >>>> webapp automatically so the users will not have to enter in the port >>>> number >>>> whenever they want to browse to the webapp. I tried doing research on >>>> google and I was not able to find a straight forward way of doing this. >>>> Any >>>> help is greatly appreciated! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The first thing you would have to check, is whether port 80 is still >>> free >>> on that server, or if there is already another webserver (e.g. Apache >>> httpd) using it. >>> >>> The second thing to clarify is whether, apart from "myapp", there are >>> other web applications (not called "myapp") which you are running or >>> would >>> want to run under Tomcat on that server. >>> If not, then you might want to run your application as the *default* >>> application, so that users would get to it with the URL " >>> https://myapp.example.com:8443/";, instead of " >>> https://myapp.example.com:8443/myapp";. >>> To do this first, have a look at : >>> http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo >>> and look at #17 : How do I make my web application be the tomcat default >>> application >>> >>> It will just be easier if you clear up the above points first, because >>> there are multiple possibilities, and it narrows down the scope of the >>> tips >>> we can provide. >>> >>> > On 17.06.2016 18:43, Sean Son wrote: > >> Hello Andre >> >> thank you for your response. >> >> There are no other webservers running on this machine. There are other web >> apps as well, but the only way to access them is through myapp. So should >> I >> deploy myapp as the default app ? >> >> > Yes, I think that it will make the rest easier. > So do that, as per the instructions above, and then we will continue. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > Thank you for the tidbit about how to reply :) So I used number 17 from the website and i deployed the war file as the ROOT.war file. What should the next steps be? I thank you again for all of your help!
