You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by John Turner <to...@johnturner.com> on 2003/03/21 20:51:51 UTC

Re: tomcat responds with localhost, but refuses the connection w/ mach inename

That's one way.  It pretty much comes down to how you want to handle 
Contexts.  If you want a particular Context to be available for a 
particular domain/host and that domain/host only, you would use a separate 
Host container.

John

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:39:39 -0500, Davis, Jeremy 
<Je...@stercomm.com> wrote:

> I was wondering, I saw the virtual host configuration documentation, and 
> was
> about to attempt such a thing.  So I should add an Alias tag, under a 
> host
> tag in the server.xml?
>
> Jeremy Davis
> Senior Support Analyst
> BPI Marketplace Integration
> 614.760.8941
> 1.800.436.8726 - Support Line
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Turner [mailto:tomcat-user@johnturner.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 2:37 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: tomcat responds with localhost, but refuses the connection
> w/mach inename
>
>
>
> Did you configure a virtual host for machinename in server.xml, or just 
> leave it with localhost?  Tomcat is literal, there is no catch-all like 
> there is with Apache.  That is, unless you have a Host container for your 
> hostname or an Alias directive for an already existing virtual host, 
> Tomcat will not answer the request.
>
> <Host name="localhost"..../> - will only take requests for localhost and 
> none other
>
> <Host name="localhost"..../>
> <Alias>machinename</Alias> - will take requests for localhost + 
> machinename
>
> <Host name="machinename"... /> - will take requests for machinename but 
> not localhost
>
> John
>
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:32:17 -0500, Davis, Jeremy 
> <Je...@stercomm.com> wrote:
>
>> I got red hat 8.0, jdk 1.3.1_07, and tomcat 3.3.1a installed.  If on the
>> server, I do localhost:8080, it works ok and comes up with the welcome 
>> page,
>> but when I do machinename:8080 it comes back telling me the connection 
>> was
>> refused?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeremy Davis
>> Senior Support Analyst
>> BPI Marketplace Integration
>> 614.760.8941
>> 1.800.436.8726 - Support Line
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: tomcat-user-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org
>> For additional commands, e-mail: tomcat-user-help@jakarta.apache.org
>>
>>
>
>
>



-- 
Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: tomcat-user-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: tomcat-user-help@jakarta.apache.org