Multiple Domain JSP Configurations

[Jaymes Sorbel <ji...@bookopoly.com>]

Hello All,

I've hesitated to post this question to this list thinking that it might be
something that I should be able to "figure out" myself.  However, I have not
found any good method or documentation for doing what I need to do - or I've
completely missed the boat on this.

Let me setup what I have to work with.

1.  I host multiple domains on my Linux 6.1 Box
2.  I'm using Tomcat 3.2 with mod_jserv and Apache 1.3.12
3.  I have Tomcat directory at /path/to/tomcat
4.  Web Root is at /web/root (seperate from tomcat)

I understand how to get each domain to point to a specific
webapps/subdirectory for servlets.  What I don't understand is how to get
each domain to access JSP files from a certain location.

For example.  I would like to access.

http://www.MyDomain.com/index.jsp
http://www.MyDomain2.com/index.jsp
etc.
etc.

from each domain and ensure the right index.jsp is displayed.  What appears
to happen now is that Tomcat/Jserv is looking at webapps/ROOT for the
specified JSP file.  If this is the case, then I would have to have each
domains index.jsp be a different name.

Here is what I thought would be a solution.  Either:

1.  Make apache's webroot the same as the Tomcat webapps directory or
2.  Make Tomcat webapps directory the same as apache's webroot.

Other than this (and I'm not sure either would work), I have not found a
method to configure the JSP portion of Tomcat as I need it.

Any help on this or if you could send me to a good documentation source,
this would be greatly appreciated!

Also, is there reasonable alternatives to Tomcat that may not be too
expensive and not so complicated to configure and/or maybe have a better
performance record.  I thought I would just toss this out there just to see.

Respectfully,



Jaymes H. Sorbel

upgrading from tomcat 3.0 to tomcat 3.1

[Peter Choe <ch...@mindspring.com>]

i have tomcat 3.0 running in production on FreeBSD, but i have noticed several
shortcomings.
such as the service just stops for no reason and i need to restart tomcat.  and
the post method
doesn't work.

so, i have been testing tomcat 3.1 and have found that i don't need to restart it,
and the post
method works.

unfortunately the person that set up our production left for greener pasteurs
leaving me to
handle the change, but he seemed to have created his own file system for tomcat
and i can't
easily just replace the tomcat cat directory.

what files do i need to update on the older tomcat to the new one?

thanks for any help.

peter choe

Re: Multiple Domain JSP Configurations

[Eric Simpson <es...@home.com>]

I have tomcat's root the same as apache's root and accessing

www.server.com/index.jsp

works fine.

Jaymes Sorbel wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I've hesitated to post this question to this list thinking that it might be
> something that I should be able to "figure out" myself.  However, I have not
> found any good method or documentation for doing what I need to do - or I've
> completely missed the boat on this.
>
> Let me setup what I have to work with.
>
> 1.  I host multiple domains on my Linux 6.1 Box
> 2.  I'm using Tomcat 3.2 with mod_jserv and Apache 1.3.12
> 3.  I have Tomcat directory at /path/to/tomcat
> 4.  Web Root is at /web/root (seperate from tomcat)
>
> I understand how to get each domain to point to a specific
> webapps/subdirectory for servlets.  What I don't understand is how to get
> each domain to access JSP files from a certain location.
>
> For example.  I would like to access.
>
> http://www.MyDomain.com/index.jsp
> http://www.MyDomain2.com/index.jsp
> etc.
> etc.
>
> from each domain and ensure the right index.jsp is displayed.  What appears
> to happen now is that Tomcat/Jserv is looking at webapps/ROOT for the
> specified JSP file.  If this is the case, then I would have to have each
> domains index.jsp be a different name.
>
> Here is what I thought would be a solution.  Either:
>
> 1.  Make apache's webroot the same as the Tomcat webapps directory or
> 2.  Make Tomcat webapps directory the same as apache's webroot.
>
> Other than this (and I'm not sure either would work), I have not found a
> method to configure the JSP portion of Tomcat as I need it.
>
> Any help on this or if you could send me to a good documentation source,
> this would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Also, is there reasonable alternatives to Tomcat that may not be too
> expensive and not so complicated to configure and/or maybe have a better
> performance record.  I thought I would just toss this out there just to see.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Jaymes H. Sorbel