Virtual Hosts on IIS & Tomcat

["Knaggs, George R" <ge...@merck.com>]

Mr Shachor / Tomcat-User,

I hope you don't mind this email but I've been unable to find any
information on how to configure IIS with Tomcat using a Virtual Host where
the context path / URI is the root (http://one.domain.com/ and
http://two.domain.com/).  I have more than one virtual host on this server
and the uriworkermap.properties doesn't mention anything about configuring
more than one host using the same uri /servlet/*.  The tomcat-iis-howto
discusses a similar setup but the contexts have different URIs (/examples/*
and /webpages/*).

I've also had trouble installing the isapi filter for an additional web site
using the IIS management console.  It doesn't seem to be able load the
filter a second time.  Is there anything that has to be configured
differently for installing the filter on a second web-site on the same web
server.

Can you please tell me if this is possible and if there is any documentation
on how to set this up.  I've configured this many times with Apache but I'm
locked into using IIS4.0 inorder to use a different ISAPI filter that
provides single-signon features used at my company.

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
George Knaggs

Re: Virtual Hosts on IIS & Tomcat

[cm...@yahoo.com]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Knaggs, George R wrote:

> Mr Shachor / Tomcat-User,
>
> I hope you don't mind this email but I've been unable to find any
> information on how to configure IIS with Tomcat using a Virtual Host where
> the context path / URI is the root (http://one.domain.com/ and
> http://two.domain.com/).  I have more than one virtual host on this server
> and the uriworkermap.properties doesn't mention anything about configuring
> more than one host using the same uri /servlet/*.  The tomcat-iis-howto
> discusses a similar setup but the contexts have different URIs (/examples/*
> and /webpages/*).


There is work going on to fix this in jakarta-tomcat-connectors. One
workaround is to just forward all /servlet/* to tomcat, and configure
virtual host on tomcat.

Of course, the problems are very complex if you want static files served
by IIS, it can't be done without few fixes in mod_jk.


> I've also had trouble installing the isapi filter for an additional web site
> using the IIS management console.  It doesn't seem to be able load the
> filter a second time.  Is there anything that has to be configured
> differently for installing the filter on a second web-site on the same web
> server.

AFAIK you need a single instance of the isapi filter. The filter should
deal with virtual hosts - unfortunately the code is not yet completed. If
you know some C - you're wellcome to contribute :-)



> Can you please tell me if this is possible and if there is any documentation
> on how to set this up.  I've configured this many times with Apache but I'm
> locked into using IIS4.0 inorder to use a different ISAPI filter that
> provides single-signon features used at my company.

Sorry, I don't use windows. Integrating authentication mechanisms of
server and tomcat is very difficult, planned for a future version of jk.
( probably ajp14 )


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