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Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials

You're reading from   Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials This book takes you from beginner to expert in logical stages, covering all the essentials of Tomcat 7 from trouble-free installation to building your own middleware servers. Packed with examples and illustrations.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516624
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tanuj Khare Tanuj Khare
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
1. Preface
1. Installation of Tomcat 7 FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuration and Deployment 3. Performance Tuning 4. Integration of Tomcat with the Apache Web Server 5. Securing Tomcat 7 6. Logging in Tomcat 7 7. Troubleshooting in Tomcat 8. Monitoring and Management of Tomcat 7 9. Clustering in Tomcat 7 10. Tomcat Upgrade 11. Advanced Configuration for Apache Tomcat 7

Virtual hosting in Tomcat 7


Tomcat 7 supports name-based virtual hosting. This approach is very useful in hosting multiple web applications on the single instance of Tomcat 7. It also gives more privileges to the administrator to separate the applications from each other and their access control restrictions. You cannot understand the real concept of virtual hosting unless you implement it. So why wait, let's do the real-life implementation for virtual hosting in Tomcat 7.

For example, if you want to host the previously mentioned sites on the web server, then the DNS will be configured in the following manner. Let us assume the web server name is webserver1.yxz.com and is hosted on the IP 192.168.0.1. To implement the previous scenario, the following steps need to be performed:

  1. 1. Configure the domain names in the DNS server and reload the DNS services so that it can be replicated on the server. Following are the DNS records with the address and CNAME:

    Alias

    Record

    Domain

    webserver1...

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