| How to set up a virtual host website with Tomcat6 [message #549493] |
Mon, 26 July 2010 16:48  |
 Marc Chamberlin
Messages: 27
Registered: July 2009 |
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Hi - Done a lot of searching for an answer, but no joy! Can anyone
tell me how one sets up a project for a static website that will be
configured for a virtual host? I can't even figure out how to associate
a static website with a Tomcat6 server, let alone figure out how to set
the virtual webapp deployment directory for it!
In the Tomcat directory, one normally has a basic webapp dir with a ROOT
subdir for the main website. ($CATALINA_HOME)->webapps->ROOT but for
virtual hosted domains it will be something like
($CATALINA_HOME)->virtualDomain_webapps->ROOT
So how does one setup this sort of deployment within Eclipse? One
thought I had was to set up a second instance of a Tomcat server, and
give it a new deploy path, but I still do not see how to associate a
static website with it. And I don't want two different webprojects to
collide if both their context roots are set to ROOT
Also, one other question that has been nagging me, and a bit of a
headache... Why does Eclipse set the name of the default deployment
directory to wtpwebapps instead of simply webapps? That raises havoc
with a lot of projects and Tomcat has no idea what this root deployment
directory is... It is a PITA if I forget to reconfigure this and it is
not the normal default webapp directory that comes with a basic Tomcat
installation. (Particularly since many of my web apps use generated
absolute paths in things like servlets and JSP code) Inquiring minds are
curious! Wish I could find some good documentation on the models used
in Eclipse/WTP for project types, servers, deployment etc.... If there
is such, I am willing to read and grok on my own, but what I have found
so far is a far cry from getting me to being able to comprehend most of
the things I am being asked about, or want to configure!
Marc...
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