Hello Andre thank you for your response.
There are no other webservers running on this machine. There are other web apps as well, but the only way to access them is through myapp. So should I deploy myapp as the default app ? Thanks On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:03 PM, André Warnier (tomcat) <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > On 17.06.2016 17:03, Sean Son wrote: > >> Hello all >> >> I am new to the list. This is what i am trying to do but need help on: >> >> >> I have a webapp running on tomcat 8: >> https://myapp.example.com:8443/myapp >> >> I am going to set up a DNS record myapp.example.com which will point to >> the >> IP address of the tomcat server that hosts the webapp.. I want this new >> DNS >> record myapp.example.com to redirect to >> https://myapp.example.com:8443/myapp. >> In other words, I want the URL to redirect port 80 to the URL for the >> webapp automatically so the users will not have to enter in the port >> number >> whenever they want to browse to the webapp. I tried doing research on >> google and I was not able to find a straight forward way of doing this. >> Any >> help is greatly appreciated! >> >> >> > The first thing you would have to check, is whether port 80 is still free > on that server, or if there is already another webserver (e.g. Apache > httpd) using it. > > The second thing to clarify is whether, apart from "myapp", there are > other web applications (not called "myapp") which you are running or would > want to run under Tomcat on that server. > If not, then you might want to run your application as the *default* > application, so that users would get to it with the URL " > https://myapp.example.com:8443/";, instead of " > https://myapp.example.com:8443/myapp";. > To do this first, have a look at : > http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo > and look at #17 : How do I make my web application be the tomcat default > application > > It will just be easier if you clear up the above points first, because > there are multiple possibilities, and it narrows down the scope of the tips > we can provide. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
