Hi, I am trying to do something that I figure should be pretty simple - accessing my tomcat container from something other than localhost. So far as I can tell, I should be adding a <Host/> entry to server.xml with the host I want to access tomcat as. On OS X, hosts in the local subnet can be accessed as <hostname>.local - so, for example, typing 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]' on host1 will ssh to host2 authenticating as someuser (this is working - i.e. host2.local can be resolved form host1). If you type 'hostname' on host1, it returns 'host1.local'
So the scenario is that I have tomcat deployed and working on host2 port 8080, and want to access it from host1. I don't want to muck around with apache and mod_jk etc. Been there many times before, always find it annoying. In any case, I shouldn't need to, as far as I can tell, as tomcat should be able to do the job. I am adding the following to the server.xmlfile, after the <Host name="localhost" .... /> entry - <Host name="host2.local" autoDeploy="false" deployOnStartup="false" deployXML="false" configClass=" org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.config.JBossContextConfig"> <Valve className="org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve" cachedConnectionManagerObjectName="jboss.jca:service=CachedConnectionManager" transactionManagerObjectName="jboss:service=TransactionManager" /> </Host> and would like the following URL 'http://host2.local:8080/<context>' to work from host1. ' http://localhost:8080/<context>' already works from a browser on host2. I realise I am using the tomcat embedded within JBoss, but it should be the same - I have the following specific questions 1. Is this the right approach in general (ignoring specific of JBooss or whatever)? 2. Is there something tricky about the OS X host naming mechanisms that could be causing me some problems? 3. Any other ideas why this might not be working? Thanks, Colin
