Tomcat virtual hosts

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You can configure virtual hosts to handle either separate domains or sub domains that are available on your VPS.

Adding new virtual host

You will need to edit server.xml file add/modify the Host container definitions.

<Host name="www.mycompany.com" ...>
  ...
  <Alias>mycompany.com</Alias>
  ...

  <Context> ... </Context>
</Host>

Important options for Host container are:

appBase

The Application Base directory for this virtual host. This is the pathname of a directory that may contain web applications to be deployed on this virtual host. You may specify an absolute pathname for this directory, or a pathname that is relative to the $CATALINA_BASE directory.

The Context element represents a web application, which is run within a particular virtual host.

Important options for Context container are:

docBase

The Document Base (also known as the Context Root) directory for this web application, or the pathname to the web application archive file (if this web application is being executed directly from the WAR file). You may specify an absolute pathname for this directory or WAR file, or a pathname that is relative to the appBase directory of the owning Host.

You can have as many host containers a you want.

Default host used is defined within <Engine> tag.

<Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">

Make sure to restart your Tomcat server after you make any changes.

Following the output in the Tomcat log file can give you information of any errors that might have occurred during the start up caused by incorrect or missing configuration.

cd /var/tomcatX/logs/
tail -f catalina.out

Notes

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