Tomcat: Configuring External Applications

Configure external applications
　　External applications are not put into Tomcat's wabapps directory! Just put it outside, for example: F:/hello

1. Configure under conf/server.xml to specify the path of the external application.

<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"
      unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
      <Context path="xsy_hello" docBase="F:/hello"/>
</Host>

  * in the <Host> element Add the <Context> element below, path is the URL access path, and docBase is the directory of the external application.
  * Access in the browser address bar: http://localhost:8080/xsy_hello/index.html

2. Add a configuration file under conf/catalana/localhost and specify the external application path
  * Create xsy_hello under the conf/catalana/localhost directory .xml file, where xsy_hello is the URL access path
  * Add in the xsy_hello.xml file: <Context docBase="F:/hello"/>, docBase specifies the directory of the external application.

3.

  * If the inside of the web application is placed under webapps/ROOT, the application name does not need to be given in the access URL path.

4. Configure the virtual host
  wish: http://www.xsycn to access the web application.
  * This needs to map the domain name http://www.xsy.cn to the IP address: 127.0.0.1
  * The tomcat port number needs to be changed to 80
  * The host needs to be configured in server.xml and the application directory of the host is specified
  * In the application Add a web application named ROOT to the directory.

  1). Find the C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file, add 127.0.0.1 http://www.xsy.cn
  2). Modify the port to 80 in conf/server.xml
  3). In conf Add the <Host> element in
/server.xml <Host name="www.xsy.cn" appBase="F:/myapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
</Host>
    * name: specify the host The domain name is www.xsy.cn
    * appBase: Specify the application directory of the host as F:/myapps
  4). Create a web application named ROOT under F:/myapps.

  Visit: http://www.xsy.cn/index.html
  where www.xsy.cn will be parsed as 127.0.0 on this machine.