How Do You Create Multiple Virtual Hosts?

1.	How Do You Create Multiple Virtual Hosts?
Answer» If you want tomcat to ACCEPT requests for different hosts e.g. www.myhostname.com then you MUST Create ${catalina.home}/www/appBase , ${catalina.home}/www/deploy, and ${catalina.home}/conf/Catalina/www.myhostname.com Add a host entry in the server.xml file Create the the FOLLOWING file under conf/Catalina/www.myhostname.com/ROOT.xml Add any PARAMETERS specific to this hosts webapp to this context file Put your war file in ${catalina.home}/www/deploy When tomcat starts, it finds the host entry, then looks for any context files and will start any apps with a context. If you want tomcat to accept requests for different hosts e.g. www.myhostname.com then you must

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If you want tomcat to ACCEPT requests for different hosts e.g. www.myhostname.com then you MUST

Create ${catalina.home}/www/appBase , ${catalina.home}/www/deploy, and ${catalina.home}/conf/Catalina/www.myhostname.com
Add a host entry in the server.xml file
Create the the FOLLOWING file under conf/Catalina/www.myhostname.com/ROOT.xml
Add any PARAMETERS specific to this hosts webapp to this context file
Put your war file in ${catalina.home}/www/deploy
When tomcat starts, it finds the host entry, then looks for any context files and will start any apps with a context.

If you want tomcat to accept requests for different hosts e.g. www.myhostname.com then you must

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