Egor Samarkhanov wrote:
Hello !
I have multiple clients:
client 1 - 40 users
client 2 - 50 users
client 3 - 60 users
And I have a web application that is supposed to serve the clients.
The application is deployed into Tomcat. Each client has it's own database.
What I want to implement is the single web application instance which
servers all the clients. The client (and the database to connect to)
is identified by the context path from the URL.
I.e. I imply the following scenario:
1. Some user requestes the http://mydomain.com/client1/
2. Tomcat invokes a single instance of my application (no matter
which context is requested)
3. My application processes the rest of the request thinking that it's
deployed to /client1 context path, i.e. all redirect or relative URLs
should be resolved against http://mydomain.com/client1/
When the client 2 requests the http://mydomain.com/client2/, I want my
application (the same instance) now process it just like if it was
deployed to /client2 context path.
Is this possible in Tomcat?
Personal opinion:
By putting some considerable effort into it, it is certainly possible to do something like
that, by rewriting URLs and/or proxying and/or making all your pages refer to the context
etc..
But the question is : why ?
If
- you have many, many "clients"
- or you application is so big that having multiple copies of it totally fills
your disk
- or your application for "client1" needs to share data with the application for
"client2"
then it may be worth thinking about this.
But otherwise, you probably would immensely simplify your life by using a separate virtual
host for each client, and have for each virtual host a separate appBase, in which you just
deploy a copy of your application.
Think of the security issues otherwise, to avoid one client being ever able to access the
data of another; or think of what happens when one of these clients in the future asks you
for that little change just for him.. etc..
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