RE: problem with Alias on Virtual host (Tomcat's direction)

["David M. Holmes" <da...@yahoo.com>]

BTW is Tomcat's ultimate goal to replace Apache for HTTP serving? I did not think so originally,
but including features like virtual hosting leads me to believe otherwise...

<Dave/>

--- Mike Bremford <mi...@paperx.com> wrote:
> Hi Donald
> 
> Just a hunch, but as Alias is an apache tag, I'd be surprised if it was
> picked up by Tomcat. At the risk of being naff, what about a symlink?
> 
> As an alternative, I'm not sure exactly what you're doing with Virtual
> Hosts, but 3.2b2 has vastly improved virtual host handling. In <server.xml>
> I can do something like this:
> 
> <Host name="travolta.paperx.com">
>     <Context path="" docBase="/export/web/travolta"/>
> </Host>
> 
> 
> Cheers... Mike
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MacLaren, Donald [mailto:DMacLaren@cmgi.com]
> Sent: 16 August 2000 16:55
> To: 'tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org'
> Subject: problem with Alias on Virtual host
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> I set up this structure in 3.1
> /virt/app_area/webapps/appname
> 
> Under app name, I have inclused pages from a maon area and an Image area.
> 
> When I do an image = it can find the alias I set up in Tomcat.conf
> <VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xx>
> ServerName dev-portal.xxx.com
> DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache-tomcat/virt/dev-portal/htdocs
> ScriptAlias /usr/local/apache-tomcat/virt/dev-portal/cgi-bin
> /usr/local/apache-tomcat/virt/dev-portal/
> Alias /images /usr/local/apache-tomcat/virt/dev-portal/htdocs/images/
> Alias /main /usr/local/apache-tomcat/virt/dev-portal/htdocs/main/
> 
> 
> I can't seem to work the alias for main when I do a <@ include file = or a
> <JSP:include page=.
> 
> I get the response has been committed.  I have to move the MAIN under the
> "/virt/app_area/webapps/appname" directory for it to work. This can't be
> correct.  I shouldn't have to have this structure and files copied in two
> places.
> 
> ANY IDEAS????
> 
> Thanks.
> 


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Re: problem with Alias on Virtual host (Tomcat's direction)

[Ken <ka...@pacific.net>]

Virtual Host support is needed badly in newer versions of Tomcat - as is
something like SuExec, for security reasons. It doesn't have anything to
do with replacing Apache, just making tomcat better than it currently
is!
-Ken


"David M. Holmes" wrote:
> 
> BTW is Tomcat's ultimate goal to replace Apache for HTTP serving? I did not think so originally,
> but including features like virtual hosting leads me to believe otherwise...
> 
> <Dave/>
> 
> --- Mike Bremford <mi...@paperx.com> wrote:
> > Hi Donald
> >
> > Just a hunch, but as Alias is an apache tag, I'd be surprised if it was
> > picked up by Tomcat. At the risk of being naff, what about a symlink?
> >
> > As an alternative, I'm not sure exactly what you're doing with Virtual
> > Hosts, but 3.2b2 has vastly improved virtual host handling. In <server.xml>
> > I can do something like this:
> >
> > <Host name="travolta.paperx.com">
> >     <Context path="" docBase="/export/web/travolta"/>
> > </Host>
> >
> >
> > Cheers... Mike
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MacLaren, Donald [mailto:DMacLaren@cmgi.com]
> > Sent: 16 August 2000 16:55
> > To: 'tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org'
> > Subject: problem with Alias on Virtual host
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> > I set up this structure in 3.1
> > /virt/app_area/webapps/appname
> >
> > Under app name, I have inclused pages from a maon area and an Image area.
> >
> > When I do an image = it can find the alias I set up in Tomcat.conf
> > <VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xx>
> > ServerName dev-portal.xxx.com
> > DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache-tomcat/virt/dev-portal/htdocs
> > ScriptAlias /usr/local/apache-tomcat/virt/dev-portal/cgi-bin
> > /usr/local/apache-tomcat/virt/dev-portal/
> > Alias /images /usr/local/apache-tomcat/virt/dev-portal/htdocs/images/
> > Alias /main /usr/local/apache-tomcat/virt/dev-portal/htdocs/main/
> >
> >
> > I can't seem to work the alias for main when I do a <@ include file = or a
> > <JSP:include page=.
> >
> > I get the response has been committed.  I have to move the MAIN under the
> > "/virt/app_area/webapps/appname" directory for it to work. This can't be
> > correct.  I shouldn't have to have this structure and files copied in two
> > places.
> >
> > ANY IDEAS????
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> 
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