Using the balancer app to redirect. Well, trying to... - SOLVED 2007-01-09 - By Jeremy
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Hassan Schroeder wrote:
> On 1/9/07, Jeremy <jeremy@(protected)> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to set up a tomcat 5.0.28 instance (on Debian) to achieve
>> redirecting accesses to site1.company.com through to newsite1.org, using
>> the balancer app. rather than apache webserver and the AJP connectors.
>>
>> The easiest solution would of course be just to set up a DNS level
>> redirect on all port-80 (See http://ort-80.ora-code.com) accesses by putting in an A-name record to point
>> at newsite1.org, but the problem is that newsite1.org doesn't have a
>> direct IP, and you can't put the alphanumeric address in the DNS.
>
> I'm afraid I don't understand how name-based virtual hosting is *not*
> the solution to your "problem" here.
>
> It doesn't matter if "newsite1.org" has an IP shared with other hosts or
> domains, so why is it not in DNS?
>
Hi Hassan/Everyone
Thanks for the comment. Obviously newsite1.org has an IP number
associated with it (most likely shared), it's just that directly
accessing it (as eg http://123.456.789.1) brings up an error page from
the hosting server, which obviously matches on alphas. Also, the
interface I have to use to modify the ANAME field will only accept IPs ,
not alphas (with good reason!)
Anyway, problem SOLVED! For reference, what I had to do was physically
copy the entire webapps definition directory into conf/Catalina, ratehr
than just leaving it in tomcat_home/webapps. For some reason (I suspect
to do with the priority order that Tomcat looks through the webapps
directories) this apparently pointless reconfiguration allows the
balancer instance to properly respond to the root call. So there it
is: a somewhat cranky but possibly useful workaround to VH redirection
without using AJP or apache. Hope it helps others out.
Thanks for listening, chaps!
Jeremy
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