I decided to try running my tomcat app as ROOT, by deploying it under usr/java/tomcat-5.5/webapps/ROOT
It might not be the optimal way, but I want to at least first manage to access this app by www.mydomain.com However all I get is a 403 forbidden error. It turns out that running tomcat from within apache is not as simple as I thought. Any ideas? -- godaddy definitely offers no support on customizations like this. Would there be a quick way to switch off Apache completely and have Tomcat take all incoming traffic to port 80? Thanks in advance On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Dimitrios Christodoulakis<dimi....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been struggling for the past couple of weeks to redirect > external traffic from the Apache 2 server to Tomcat 5.5 on a godaddy > dedicated server. > > We have created a new domain on the server, which default public path > is /home/myadmin/public_html/ when someone points there browser to > www.mydomain.com > > At the same time I have uploaded and deployed the application under > usr/java/tomcat-5.5/webapps/mydomain/ > > As I understand at this time web content is served by the apache > server and not Tomcat. What I have been trying to do is to have all > pages static and dynamic be served by Tomcat. > > Godaddy offers limited support unless we buy into their assisted > service plan. I followed some steps they initially suggested which > involved creating a symbolic link between the default public directory > /home/myadmin/public_html/ and the application directory > usr/java/tomcat-5.5/webapps/mydomain/ by using the command: > > ln -s /usr/java/tomcat-5.5/webapps/mydomain/index.html > /home/myadmin/public_html > > With this I hoped all requests from www.mydomain.com going to > /home/myadmin/public_html would be automatically redirected to the > actual tomcat content starting with the deployed application's > index.html page. But unfortunately this does not work. I am always > returned the 404 error message. > > Is there a known or recommended way to resolve this issue? After some > searching I believe there are workarounds involving editing the > /usr/java/tomcat-5.5/conf/server.xml and the etc/httpd/conf/http.conf > files. Would it be possible someone to provide some general steps how > to do this? > > Many thanks for any practical help. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
