Virtual Hosting Setup Not Working In Tomcat 6

00codefinder · October 24th, 2007, 07:44 AM

Hey everyone,

I am currently upgrading from Tomcat 4 to Tomcat 6. In version 4 I had several context environments setup like so. However when I use the same setup in the server.xml file of Tomcat 6, all environments get authenticated by the first context I have setup instead of there respective databases. This is no good because each context is for a separate client, anyone know how to set this up properly.

Code:

<Context path="/App_1" docBase="App_1" debug="0" reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
<Realm  className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm" debug="99"
driverName="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver"
connectionURL="jdbc:sqlserver://192.168.1.100;databaseName=App1;user=ppmuser;password=ppmauditdb"
connectionName="ppmuser" 
connectionPassword="ppmauditdb" 
digest="SHA"
userTable="PPMUser" userNameCol="UserName" userCredCol="UserPassword"
          userRoleTable="PPMUser" roleNameCol="RoleTomcat" />
</Context>

Heres a overview of my setup.

Client 1: www.domainname.com/app_1
Client 2: www.domainname.com/app_2

The app is being authenticated with a SQL back end, right now in Tomcat 6, first context is handling all the databases authentication - which is not right. Hope someone can help.

Thanks

iamrakesh22 · October 25th, 2007, 11:53 PM

Try by giving seperate context XML files for each context. Like for app_1 you need to have app_1.xml which will be placed under TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost directory. Each context will have its own context xml and that context xml file will have the <context> tag for it.

- Rakesh

biocyberman · December 12th, 2007, 11:26 PM

I am new to tomcat. I also haven't succeeded in setup virtual host in Tomcat6. First I tried with tomcat6 standalone mode.

My $Catalina_home: /usr/share/tomcat6

Following is the section to config virtual hosts in my sever.xml:

Code:

        <Host name="biocyberman.com"  appBase="/home/biocyberman/public_html/webapps"
            unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
            xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">

         <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
                 directory="logs"  prefix="virtual_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/>
        <Context path="" docBase="/home/biocyberman/public_html" debug="0" reloadable="true"/>
       <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
                 directory="logs"  prefix="virtual_log." suffix=".txt"
                 pattern="common"/>
        </Host>
    <Host name="mbio.dom" debug="0"
          appBase="/home/biocyberman/mbio.dom/webapps"
          autoDeploy="true"
          unpackWARs="true">
    <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
           directory="/home/biocyberman/mbio.dom/logs"
           prefix="mbio_access."
           suffix=".log"
           pattern="common"
           resolveHosts="false"/>
    <Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="0"/>

    </Host>

This is not successful. My question is:
Is it possible to config a virtual host that all of its files are put out side of $Catalina_home?