----- Original Message ----- From: "tom_goring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <users@tomcat.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:09 PM
Subject: multiple instances and context roots



Hi,

I've posted this on the jboss forum but had no response... it's really a
tomcat question.

jboss-4.2.2 (not sure of the tomcat version used)

I have several jboss installs running behind apache using mod_jk (dev, test,
production, etc)

I can't use virtual hosts as all my instances require SSL and this is only
set up for 1 domain. Each instance runs on it's own ports.

I want a simple way to tell each jboss/tomcat instance to use a reliative
context.

E.g.

https://www.myserver.com/dev/MYAPP/hello.jsp
https://www.myserver.com/test/MYAPP/hello.jsp

I.e. I want to know where I can set dev/test, etc.

I don't really want to change the application.xml (context-root) for each
EAR file when installed (as that would require rebuilding the EAR dependent
on the instance).

Ideas ?

Tom, I have no knowledge of Jboss... we dont use EJB at all, so I'm just going to tell you what TC does to get sub contexts, and then you on your own.

Say you want /dev/MyApp
The context file name in conf/host  becomes

dev#MyApp.xml

The path in the context file becomes

path="/dev/MyApp"/>

And in webapps folder it becomes

/dev/The UnPacked Webapp

Deployment is not possible by dropping a war into tomcat... the war must not be there, else TC will auto deploy and mess up your config.

Then I "guess" JkMount /dev/*  theWorker.....  may work...

And hopefully nothing in those apps is hardcoded... like URI's in jsp pages etc.
And EJB is still happy...

Some really creative guy Alex Mestiashvili showed us a way (unrelated) to map different IP's to different webapps a while back using a reverse proxy and some other incredible rewrite stuff that Apache can do... JK works on relative uri's, but I think its worth a bash asking the Apached guys if one cant map

https://www.myserver.com/dev/MYAPP/hello.jsp
https://www.myserver.com/test/MYAPP/hello.jsp

to

https://www.myserver.com:8080/MYAPP/hello.jsp
https://www.myserver.com:8081/MYAPP/hello.jsp

etc...

Or something even more creative... ie try get apache to present TC/JBoss with something it likes... Maybe mod proxy has a few tricks that jk does not... worth getting into the Httpd mailing list and asking, I think. JK is terrific at load balancing, but you just trying to use it as a kind of gateway... Apached is probably good at that.

Good luck.... sorry cant be more helpful

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