Josh Gooding wrote:
Hey guys and gals, it's been a while, but I have a question for you. I am
setting up a new Tomcat 6.0.29 installation that is for project management
software.
Here's the scenario. On this server we are currently running Apache 2.2 for
our companies wiki on port 80. This is bound to a specific IP address and
we can navigate to 'Wiki' in the address of the web browser and viola, it
appears.
With that in mind, can I:
Have tomcat serve on port 80 (bound to a different IP address than the
Apache 2.2 installation) on the same machine, and when 'this-name' is
entered into the web browser, it will serve it?
Yes, provided :
- the browser, through a query for "this-name" to its name resolution mechanism (usually
DNS), obtains an IP address which actually corresponds to an interface on the server
- and the tomcat on that server is actually listening on that IP address
As a general proviso, you cannot have two processes on the same host which open the same
listening port on the same IP address.
I am aware that I can
forward the tomcat serving through the httpd server, but I am not willing to
(unless it's the only way to do so.)
Would this be in the virtual hosting section of the documentation by chance?
No, because it has essentially nothing to do with "virtual" hosts in the HTTP
sense.
But explaining that would take us much further than needed to answer your question above
and would be quite Off-Topic for this list.(*)
The scheme you propose above is more similar to the case where you would actually have two
separate physical hosts, one running httpd and the other running tomcat.
Each would have its own separate IP address, and name.
You are just bringing them together into one machine, and setting up two network
interfaces on that one machine.
(*) read here for more details :
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/
(The "name-based" part)
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