Ok, I think I figured it out partially.  I removed the localhost entry in
the servers.xml and changed the defaultHost.

The servers.xml needed modification as follows.

    <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="www.websitea.org" jvmRoute="jvm1">

    -->
    <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="www.wetsitea.org">

      <Host name="www.websiteb.com"  appBase="websiteb"
                  unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
                  xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
                  <Alias>websiteb.com</Alias>
      </Host>

      <Host name="www.websitea.org"  appBase="websitea"
                        unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
                        xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
                  <Alias>websitea.org</Alias>
      </Host>
    </Engine>
  </Service>
</Server>

Now tomcat goes to the right sites.   Next, try to get the manager app
working.


On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Bryan Pauquette
<bryan.pauquette@gmai...>wrote:

> Ok so from a clean tomcat install in my user folder on windows 7 ultimate
> service pack 1.
>
> Step 1) Go to http://www.whatismyip.com/ and determine my ip address on
> the host machine I am running tomcat.
> Step 2) Go to my domains at http://godaddy.com , log in, click on my
> account, expand domains, click launch, click manage, click on the (A) host
> line and change the ip address to the value found in step 1.
> Step 3) Repeat step 2 for the second website.  (Wait an hour for the name
> servers to pick up the new ip address)
> Step 4) Open the servers.xml in the conf folder of the tomcat install.
>  Find and replace 8080 with 80 and 8443 with 443.
> Step 5) Go to my router and verify that port 80 and port 443 are being
> hosted by the server where tomcat is installed. (router specific)
> Step 6) Go to the control panel, system and security, allow a program
> through windows firewall, browse to the tomcat service runner. Verify that
> commons daemon service runner is in my windows program firewall exception
> list.  (Both public and private checked)
> Step 7) Modify tomcat-users.xml in the conf folder.   Uncomment the
> security lines. Add
>              <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
>              <role rolename="manager"/>
>              <user username="something" password="somethingsecret"
> roles="manager-gui,manager"/>
> Step 8) Start up tomcat at the windows command line run as administrator.
>  In the bin directory run startup.bat
> Step 9) Verify that I get the tomcat installation page when I go to either
> website.  (YES)
> Step 9) Shut down tomcat by running shutdown.bat in the bin directory of
> the tomcat installation
> Step 10) Add the following lines in the server.xml right after localhost
>
> <Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps"
>             unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
>             xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
>
> </Host>
> <Host name="websitea.com"  appBase="websitea"
>                   unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
>                   xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
>
> </Host>
>
> <Host name="websiteb.org"  appBase="websiteb"
>                         unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
>                         xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
> </Host>
> Step 11) Create directories websitea and websiteb in the same directory as
> tomcat webapps.
> Step 12) Create a ROOT.war file in eclipse by creating a dynamic website
> project.  Drop html file in the WebContent folder of the site named
> index.html.  Then right click on the project in eclipse, select Export
> select WAR file.   Save as ROOT.war file at tomcat directory websitea
> Step 13) Create a ROOT.war file in eclipse for the second site with a
> different index.html the same way.  Save as ROOT.war at tomcat directory
> websiteb.
> Step 14) remove the ROOT folder in webapps.   Put websitea.com ROOT.war
> file in webapps.   (Experimenting here...)
> Step 14) Startup Tomcat by running startup.bat.
>
> Here is the strange behavior that has me puzzled.
>
> When I enter www.websitea.com or www.websiteb.org in the browser it takes
> me to the site ROOT.war in webapps
>
> When I enter exactly websitea.com or websiteb.org it takes me to the
> "correct"  website.
>
> Why does the www make a difference?
>
> Maybe put an alias in the host entry?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Jeffrey Lilly <jslilly@hebr...>wrote:
>
>>  As with Kerry, I have also done it as the blog says. More information
>> would be helpful.
>>
>> Ultimately, I went with Apache and the Tomcat/JK connector. This allowed
>> us to not only host multiple domains with a single Tomcat instance, but
>> also allows us to easily integrate other server-side architecture such as
>> Python, PHP, etc. (Yes...some of these could be substituted within the JVM,
>> but we chose not to for a number of reasons 5+ years ago)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/5/12 8:51 PM, Kerry Wilson wrote:
>>
>> I have done that before exactly as the blog says.  What is the behavior
>> you are seeing? Perhaps you could let apache handle the virtual hosting and
>> run two tomcat instances.
>>
>>
>> Sent from Phonezilla, my Samsung Galaxy Note
>>
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> Subject: [ajug-members] Running multiple sites off of a single tomcat
>> server
>> From: Bryan Pauquette <bryan.pauquette@gmai...><bryan.pauquette@gmai...>
>> To: ajug-members@ajug...
>> CC: [ajug-members] Running multiple sites off of a single tomcat server
>>
>>
>>   Hey has anyone been able to run multiple sites (domains) off a single
>>    tomcat server?
>>
>>
>>    I found some somewhat useful links and I have been experimenting with
>> them
>>    but the behavior I am experiencing does not match what I expect.
>>
>>     http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/virtual-hosting-howto.html
>>
>>
>> http://iam-rakesh.blogspot.com/2009/10/hosting-multiple-domains-in-tomcat.html
>>
>>
>>  I am running tomcat 6.0.35.   So far I have updated server.xml and
>> defined
>>    two host entries and put a ROOT.war
>>    at the location I defined in appbase
>>    appBase="atlantaapps"
>>
>> Anyone do this before?
>>
>>  I have been wasting my time on this rabbit-hole.....
>>
>>
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