Dear Jason, > On 21 Oct 2015, at 19:18, Jason Britton <jbritto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Björn - > Look in tomcat/conf at the server.xml, you'd just define multiple host > entries, one host entry would have a name of "alice.example.com" the other > with "bob.example.com". Each host entry would also have its own appBase > (alice-webapps & bob-webapps), meaning both sites could be deployed using > ROOT.war. Update the DNS for alice and bob to point at the server your > consolidated tomcat is on. Inside tomcat/conf/Catalina/ I'm pretty sure > you're going to need a directory for each host with that hosts config > ROOT.xml etc).
thanks. Yes, I know how to do this part. > We use Apache HTTPD to proxy to our Tomcats and we > terminate SSL at HTTPD so I'm not exactly sure on your SSL questions. Our > SSL is configured through Apache HTTPD Virtual Hosts. Maybe you want to > look into the cost for a wildcard SSL cert that would cover *.example.com > rather than specific hosts? Unfortunately that is the scenario I am trying to prevent. I don’t want to add another layer of complexity. Apache Tomcat works like a charm and if it supports Virtual Hosting I don’t need another service running. > > Jason > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Björn Raupach <raup...@me.com> wrote: > >> Dear group, >> >> it would be nice if anyone knows, if my planned setup is going to work. >> >> At the moment we are having two services (web apps) at two different >> machines and hostnames. Lets say bob.example.com and alice.example.com >> >> bob.example.com runs without SSL and deploys the web app at the root >> context. We just throw a ROOT.war in /webapps. >> >> alice.example.com needs SSL at all times. It currently does not run with >> the root context but we would like to. So another ROOT.war. We have an SSL >> cert for alice.example.com >> >> I want both applications to run on a single Tomcat instance with Virtual >> Hosting. Virtual Hosting with Tomcat that is. I am comfortable with setting >> up Virtual Hosting, but I am just not sure about the SSL part. Does the >> choice between IP-based or Hostname matter? bob.example.com might need >> SSL support in the future. >> >> We are using Amazon AWS if that is important. So I could get another >> Elastic IP. We are working with the latest Apache Tomcat 8 and the latest >> JDK on the server machines. >> >> Sorry if this is not 100% Tomcat related. >> >> Thanks for taking the time! >> >> >> with kind regards, >> Björn >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
