Re: apache + mass virtual hosting +tomcat please help (resin ??)

[Pritpal Dhaliwal <pdhaliwal@bluelithium.com>]

You can accomplish this with resin.

You can tell resin which hosts resin should take care of and which it 
shouldn't.


read some docs and give it a whirl
www.caucho.com

resin 3.0.9 has been release as GPL.

Pritpal Dhaliwal




Roozemond, D.A. wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>
> > Few virtual sites needs tomcat in order to work. I have installed 
> > tomcat4 and mod_jk2, but I have no idea how could I tell that
> > www.tomcatsite.com which is 
> > /var/vhosts/www.tomcatsite.com/httpdocs is a 
> > site that requires java ?
>
>
> IIRC Tomcat is a standalone program, not a plugin for apache. This means
> tomcat needs to listen on port 80 in order to serve http requests, and
> this is exactly the port where apache wants to listen on (and apparently
> is listening on, if all this mass virtual hosting is actually working).
>
> So I think it is not possible to have apache serve requests to
> http://somesite1.com and tomcat requests for http://somesite2.com
> (although there might be a workaround with bridged networking etc). The
> easiest solution I see is letting tomcat run on port 81 (for instance),
> and tell apache to redirect any requests for http://www.tomcatsite.com/
> to http://www.tomcatsite.com:81/, which tomcat will then serve (probably
> in a manner similar to the one you defined in apache).
>
> Hope I made it somewhat clearer...
>
> Dan